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2003 in India
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Events in the year 2003 in the Republic of India. President of India – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Prime Minister of India – Atal Bihari Vajpayee 26 January - The president of Iran, 5–9 February - Aero-India show is held in Bangalore. March - India put up a show at the ICC Cricket World Cup in South Africa after poor performances in the past. They were defeated by Australia in the Finals,18 April - Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, at his first rally in Srinagar, makes a historic announcement of a peace initiative with Pakistan. 22 June - Vajpayee is in China, India concedes that Tibet is an integral part of China. China agrees to recognise Sikkims accession to India,14 July - India refuses to send troops to Iraq. 25 August -52 killed in two blasts in Mumbai. 24 September - United States President George W. Bush invites Vajpayee to lunch in New York City during Vajpayees US trip and it is considered an important meeting for Indo-US relations. Several deals are struck on civilian nuclear technology, space, hi-tech trade,6 October - Vajpayee visits Bali for the second time in 2 years. 22 October - India announces confidence-building measures with respect to Indo-Pakistani relations, more buses, flights, higher mission strength, keshav, musician 8 January - Mahadeva Subramania Mani, entomologist. 14 July - Leela Chitnis, actress,27 July - Henning Holck-Larsen, engenner, co-founder of Larsen & Toubro. 25 October - Pandurang Shastri Athavale, philosopher, spiritual leader, social reformer,3 November - Narendra Prasad, actor, playwright, teacher and literary critic. 9 November - Binod Bihari Verma, writer,21 December - G. V. Iyer, film director
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2002 in India
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Events in the year 2002 in the Republic of India. 10 January –800 protesters are arrested in an illegal protest against the Communist government of West Bengal. The authorities there had outlawed disruptive protests at the end of 2001, mid-January – Direct flights to China are set to resume for the first time in 40 years after diplomatic talks between the two countries. 22 January – Five policemen are killed and 20 other people injured when Islamic militants attack an American cultural centre in Kolkata, Police arrest at least 50 suspects in the wake of the incident. The government immediately accuses its Pakistani counterpart of involvement in the attack,3 February – Russia gives its full backing to India over the Kashmir dispute with neighbouring Pakistan. Mid-February – The Cellular Operators Association announces that the ownership of mobile phones in India rocketed by 75% in the previous year, almost 6 million Indians now own mobile phones. 24 February – The Bharatiya Janata Party loses control of governments in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab. The BJP is expected to retain a role in a coalition in Uttar Pradesh, whereas the Punjab,27 February – A series of riots leaves hundreds dead, after 59 Hindu pilgrims die aboard a train burned by a Muslim mob in Godhra. 28 February – Violent sectarian clashes break out in the Gujarati city of Ahmadabad leaving over 500 Muslims, the riots came after the death the previous day of 58 Hindus whose train was deliberately set on fire by Muslim militants in Godhra, near Vadodara. Those victims were said to be supporters of the extremist Hindi group Vishwa Hindu Parishad, VHP has been campaigning for the construction of a Hindu temple on the controversial Ayodhya site following the destruction of an ancient mosque there in 1992. Violence rages on through March, claiming hundreds of lives, most of them Muslim,28 February – Gulbarg Society massacre, During the 2002 Gujarat riots, a mob attacked the Gulbarag Society, a lower middle-class Muslim neighbourhood in Chamanpura, Ahmedabad. 28 February – Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha presents the 2002–03 budget, amongst its major features are a 4. 8% increase in defence spending and a 5% surcharge on income tax to pay for this. 1 March – Continuing violence in Ahmedabad kills 28, police shoot,2 March – J. Jayalalithaa returns to power in Tamil Nadu as chief minister. In December 2001, a court had quashed her October 2000 corruption conviction that disqualified her from standing for election. 3 March – The speaker of the Lok Sabha, Ganti Mohana Chandra Balayogi, is killed in a crash in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. He was the first low-caste Dalit to be elected to the post,8 March – Presidents rule is imposed on the northern state of Uttar Pradesh as no party could command a majority after the recent elections. 15 March –9,000 suspected Hindu hardliners are arrested, including 8,000 in Mumbai alone, Tensions are high surrounding attempts to construct a new Hindu temple on the site of the Ayodhya mosque, which was destroyed by Hindu extremists in 1992. 15 March – The New Delhi High Court overturns the October 2000 corruption conviction of former prime minister P. V, narasimha Rao.25 March – Police arrest Yasin Malik, leader of the separatist Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, in Srinagar
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2001 in India
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Events in the year 2001 in the Republic of India. President of India – K. R. Narayanan Prime Minister of India – Atal Bihari Vajpayee 1 January – Calcutta officially becomes Kolkata, reverting to its precolonial name. 1 January Dr. Leo Rebellos Encyclopedia of Letters Pen Power,2 January – Power cuts leave huge swathes of northern India in darkness for two days starting early on 2 January. A minor fault in Uttar Pradesh leads to a breakdown in the regional grid across Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Kashmir, Punjab, and Rajasthan. Early January – The government announces that it aims to double the number of operated by Air India in the next five to seven years as well as to sell off a 60% share in the company. Air Indias stock of aging craft is thought to have dulled the companys competitive edge in recent years, early January – The president of the Indian Science Congress, R. S. Paroda, warns a conference of 3,000 Indian scientists that the country could face a food shortage in 2020 as the population size outstrips the countrys level of supplies. 4 January – The government tests its first homemade jet fighter, the plane, originally scheduled to take its maiden flight in 1991, has taken 17 years to develop and will not be ready for service until 2010. On the festivals most important day an estimated 20 million Hindu pilgrims bathe in the waters of the three rivers which meet near the town. The festival is held every 12 years,15 January – Voters in Indian-administered Kashmir are able to participate in the first local elections in 23 years. The polls decide positions on some 125 village councils, Islamic militants have urged a boycott of the vote, which they say will undermine the separatist movement. 15 January – In a sign of improving relations, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee meets with the chairman of Chinas National Peoples Congress. Both leaders say they have made progress in discussing their two countries disputed borders. 16 January-11 people are killed when six members of the Kashmiri separatist guerrilla group Lashkar-e-Toiba attempt to storm Srinagars civilian airport. Mid-January – The government announces that it is willing to meet the United Liberation Front of Assam for open negotiations on ending the 20-year insurgency in the northeastern state, mid-January – The eastern state of Orissa urges further government assistance in the face of a major drought. Officials estimate that the state has lost around $150.7 million in failed rice crops alone and it is thought that deforestation has played a major part in the drought. Mid-January – Researchers reveal that unusually high sea temperatures caused by the extreme weather effect known as El Niño have irreversibly damaged coral reefs off Indias western coast, late January –150 million children across India are immunized against polio in one of the largest vaccination projects ever undertaken. Late January – The government extends its ceasefire in Kashmir for another month despite continuing separatist violence
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India
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India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and it is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast. It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west, China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast, in the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Indias Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a border with Thailand. The Indian subcontinent was home to the urban Indus Valley Civilisation of the 3rd millennium BCE, in the following millennium, the oldest scriptures associated with Hinduism began to be composed. Social stratification, based on caste, emerged in the first millennium BCE, early political consolidations took place under the Maurya and Gupta empires, the later peninsular Middle Kingdoms influenced cultures as far as southeast Asia. In the medieval era, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam arrived, much of the north fell to the Delhi sultanate, the south was united under the Vijayanagara Empire. The economy expanded in the 17th century in the Mughal empire, in the mid-18th century, the subcontinent came under British East India Company rule, and in the mid-19th under British crown rule. A nationalist movement emerged in the late 19th century, which later, under Mahatma Gandhi, was noted for nonviolent resistance, in 2015, the Indian economy was the worlds seventh largest by nominal GDP and third largest by purchasing power parity. Following market-based economic reforms in 1991, India became one of the major economies and is considered a newly industrialised country. However, it continues to face the challenges of poverty, corruption, malnutrition, a nuclear weapons state and regional power, it has the third largest standing army in the world and ranks sixth in military expenditure among nations. India is a constitutional republic governed under a parliamentary system. It is a pluralistic, multilingual and multi-ethnic society and is home to a diversity of wildlife in a variety of protected habitats. The name India is derived from Indus, which originates from the Old Persian word Hindu, the latter term stems from the Sanskrit word Sindhu, which was the historical local appellation for the Indus River. The ancient Greeks referred to the Indians as Indoi, which translates as The people of the Indus, the geographical term Bharat, which is recognised by the Constitution of India as an official name for the country, is used by many Indian languages in its variations. Scholars believe it to be named after the Vedic tribe of Bharatas in the second millennium B. C. E and it is also traditionally associated with the rule of the legendary emperor Bharata. Gaṇarājya is the Sanskrit/Hindi term for republic dating back to the ancient times, hindustan is a Persian name for India dating back to the 3rd century B. C. E. It was introduced into India by the Mughals and widely used since then and its meaning varied, referring to a region that encompassed northern India and Pakistan or India in its entirety
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2005 in India
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Events in the year 2005 in the Republic of India. The court said that medical policies were liable to be renewed on the same terms, however, insurance companies could load the premium to a limited extent if high payments were sought by a consumer. 25 January – A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi during a pilgrimage in India kills at least 215. 29 January – The Bharatiya Janata Party -led government in Goa headed by Manohar Parrikar is reduced to a minority after four BJP MLAs resign from the 40-member house. While the Indian National Congress has staked its claim to form the new government,29 January – Former BJP president Venkaiah Naidus helicopter is set on fire by suspected Maoists during his campaign tour of Gaya, Bihar. 10 March – TRAI slashes tariffs for international bandwidth prices by up to 70% with effect from 1 April,16 March – Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, accused of the bombing of Air India Flight 182 in 1985, are found not guilty on all counts. 21 May – International Direct Dialling to countries in the Gulf,30 August – Removal of License Requirements for Exports of Controlled Items to India, Federal Register. 29 October – A train in Andhra Pradesh, derails, killing at least 77 people,29 October – At least 61 people are dead and many others wounded in three powerful blasts in Delhi. 22 November – Nitish Kumar defeated Rashtriya Janata Dal in the Bihar state election,29 December – Firing, possibly a terrorist attack, at IISC, Bangalore campus. 24 November – 20th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche 31 December – Lakshmi Tatma Sonali Majumdar, salsa dancer 3 January – Jyotindra Nath Dixit, diplomat,12 January – Amrish Puri, actor. 20 January – Parveen Babi, actress,3 March – Raveendran also known as Raveendran master, Malayalam and South Indian music composer. 22 March – Gemini Ganesan, actor,25 April – Swami Ranganathananda, President of Ramakrishna Math. 3 May – Jagjit Singh Aurora, military commander,21 May – Subodh Mukherjee, filmmaker. 25 May – Ismail Merchant, film producer,25 May – Sunil Dutt, actor, producer, director and politician. 23 July – C R Irani, journalist and editor,19 August – O. Madhavan, director and actor. 31 October – Amrita Pritam, poet, novelist and essayist,9 November – K. R. Narayanan, politician and 10th President of India. 24 November – Jamuna Baruah, actress,12 December – Ramanand Sagar, film director
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2006 in India
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Events in the year 2006 in the Republic of India. Abdul Kalam Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh 2 January – Rajnath Singh assumed office as Bharatiya Janata Party chief, 7–9 January – Pravasi Bharatiya Divas was organized in Hyderabad. 26 January – Saudi monarch King Abdullah was chief guest at Republic Day parade in New Delhi, 2–5 March – President of the United States, George W. Bush visited India. The United States signed a nuclear deal with India pending approval from the US Congress. 7 March –2006 Varanasi bombings, A terrorist attack in Varanasi killed at least 15 people,10 April – Fire at Brand India Fair at Meerut Victoria Park in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, killed 100. May – Medical doctors started a strike against central government decision on reservation for backward classes in Medical Institution. 6 July – The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opened for trade after 44 years. 11 July –11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings, A series of coordinated bomb attacks struck several commuter trains in Mumbai, India during the evening rush hour. 29 August – A 90% iron meteorite weighing 6.8 kilograms fell in Kanvarpura village in Rajasthan, near Rawatbhata and it came to earth in the middle of the day and was found by two shepherds. Scientists from the Geological Survey of India rushed to the village to recover the object, the Deputy Director-General of the Geological Survey, R. S. Goyal, said that devastation on a scale would have ensued had the meteorite struck the power station. September – The Marthandam College of Engineering and Technology was started,20 November –2006 West Bengal train disaster, A suspected terrorist attack killed five people on a train in a remote area of West Bengal. Sara Arjun, actress 3 January - Vijay Raghunath Pandharipande, physicist,25 March - Chandrakant Bakshi, author. 28 March - Bansi Lal, Haryanas four time chief minister,3 May - Pramod Mahajan, politician. 5 May - Naushad Ali, musician and composer,8 July - Raja Rao, novelist and short story writer. 21 August - Bismillah Khan, shehnai musician and Bharat Ratna winner,27 August - Hrishikesh Mukherjee, film director. 24 September - Padmini, actress and dancer,9 October - Kanshi Ram, politician and founder of Bahujan Samaj Party. 19 October- Srividya, South Indian actress, following days of religious or cultural significance were observed in 2006
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2007 in India
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Events in the year 2007 in the Republic of India. On 14 March,14 villagers were killed in police firing,10 January – India launches four satellites at a time with their PSLV-C7 rocket, including the SRE-1 test article, which will return to Earth in a test for a future Indian manned spaceflight program. 22 January – Indian spacecraft SRE1 successfully completes a twelve-day orbital test flight,24 January – India and Russia agree to jointly develop fifth-generation stealth fighter jets. Bombs were set off in two carriages, both filled with passengers, just after the train passed Diwana station near the Indian city of Panipat,80 kilometres north of New Delhi,68 people were killed in the ensuing fire and dozens more were injured. 20 February – A river boat carrying children on a trip on the Periyar River in southern India capsizes, killing at least 18 students. 15 March – Naxalite rebels attack a police outpost in the Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, India, killing at least 49 officers and looting their weapons. 16 April – At least 11 people die in southern India as a train runs into a minibus carrying local officials near the village of Thirumatpur in Tamil Nadu. 18 May –18 May 2007 Hyderabad Bombing,9 people are killed in a bomb blast at the Mecca Masjid mosque in the Indian city of Hyderabad,19 July – Prathiba Patilis elected as the first female President of India. 25 August – Forty-four people are dead after two bombs explode in Hyderabad, August – India and the United States release the text of 123 agreement. This has been controversial in the Indian political environment with both Left and NDA opposing the UPA over the issue. 11 November – Miss India-Earth Pooja Chitgopekar won in Miss Earth 2007 beauty pageant as Miss Earth-Air held in Manila,21 November – Calcutta - Protests over Bangladeshi feminist writer Taslima Nasreen turn into deadly riots, troops are deployed. 22 December – Narendra Modi led government in Gujarat completes its term,24 December - Kautilya Pandit, prodigy 27 January - Kamleshwar, writer, screenwriter, critic and essayist. 28 January - O. P. Nayyar, film music director,2 February - Vijay Arora, actor. 4 March - Sunil Kumar Mahato, politician, assassinated,5 April - Leela Majumdar, writer. 5 April - Poornachandra Tejaswi, writer and novelist,13 April - Dhulipala Seetharama Sastry, actor. 27 May - Ibrahim Saeed, journalist, editor and scholar,27 May - G. Srinivasan, film producer. 13 June - Ramchandra Gandhi, philosopher, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi,15 June - Dr. Mohamad Abdul Tayyab, agricultural scientist. 2 July - Dilip Sardesai, cricketer,8 July - Chandra Shekhar, politician, 11th Prime Minister of India
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2nd millennium
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The second millennium was a period of time that began on January 1,1001 and ended on December 31,2000 of the Gregorian calendar. It was the period of one thousand years in the Anno Domini or Common Era. The Renaissance saw the beginning of the migration of humans from Europe, Africa. The interwoven international trade led to the formation of multi-national corporations, international business ventures reduced the impact of nationalism in popular thought. The world population doubled over the first seven centuries of the millennium, consequently, unchecked human activity had considerable social and environmental consequences, giving rise to extreme poverty, climate change and biotic crisis. The 2nd millennium was a period of time began on January 1,1001. It was the period of one thousand years in the Anno Domini or Common Era. The Julian calendar was used in Europe at the beginning of the millennium, so the end date is always calculated according to the Gregorian calendar, but the beginning date is usually according to the Julian calendar. Stephen Jay Gould argued that it is not possible to decide if the millennium ended on December 31,1999, or December 31,2000. The second millennium is perhaps more popularly thought of as beginning and ending a year earlier, thus starting at the beginning of 1000 and finishing at the end of 1999. Many public celebrations for the end of the millennium were held on December 31,1999 – January 1, the civilizations in this section are organized according to the UN geoscheme. The events in this section are organized according to the UN geoscheme, the people in this section are organized according to the UN geoscheme. See also Lists of people by nationality Category, People by century Category, People by nationality and period Gottlieb, Agnes Hooper, Henry Gottlieb, Barbar Bowers,1,000 Years,1,000 People, Ranking the Men and Women Who Shaped the Millennium
