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Harkishan Singh Surjeet makes way for Prakash Karat as CPI (M) General Secretary. Surjeet was at the helm of the party since 1964, the year CPI (M) was reconstituted after the spilt of CPI. |
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The BJP turns 25. Sushma Swaraj asks the party to introspect on representation of women in its ranks. |
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BJP expels Uma Bharti for the second time. |
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The left parties moot labour unions for IT companies, call centres. |
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Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh apologises to Sikhs for 1984 riots. |
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National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme is launched. |
| Rashtriya Janata Dal of Laloo Prasad Yadav loses the electoral battle in Bihar to
NDA. Nitish Kumar takes charge as Chief Minister, putting an end to 15 years of RJD rule. |
| Chennai-based cancer specialist V Shanta bags the Magsaysay Award. |
| The Right to Information Act takes effect. |
| Dual Citizenship is announced for all Indians who left the country after 26 January 1950. |
| Three percent seats in Indian Administrative Services are reserved for people with disabilities. |
| Unprecedented Mumbai floods paralysed city life for more than a week. It left more than 100 dead in its trail. |
| The Supreme Court rules that imprisonment for life means the whole of the remaining period of the coinvict’s life, and not 14 or 20 years. |
| The Delhi High Court reduces girls’ legal age for marriage from 18 to 15 years. |
| India announces a hijack policy: Hijackers will not be negotiated with, and planes can be shot down. |
| India becomes the first country to ban on-screen smoking. |
| Parliament attack accused Mohammed Afzal sentenced to death. S A R Geelani and Afsan Guru are acquitted. |
| Ashfaq Ahmed, a Pakistani, is awarded the death sentence by a Delhi court in the 2000 Red Fort attack case. |
| Aftab Ansari and six others sentenced to death for the attack on the American Centre in
Kolkata. |
| Canadian Court sets free both accused in the Kanishka bombing case. |
| Sansar
Chand, key suspect in the tiger poaching scandal in the Sariska Game Reserve, arrested in West Delhi. |
| Filmfare Awards drops Manikchand as sponsor after the Gutka king was accused of links with the underworld. |
| Amitabh
Bachchan: After four hits in a year and relaunch of KBC2, Amitabh falls sick, and was operated upon. |
| Actor Vijay Raz and fashion guru Prasad Bidapa are detained in Dubai on charges of possessing drugs. |
| Vijaypat Singhania breaks the world record by flying 69,852 ft in a hot-air balloon. |
| Cellphones turn 10, as do the Internet and Amazon. |
| AIIMS pioneers stem cell injections. |
| Arjun Baneerjee becomes the first baby to be born via in-vitro fertilisation to a single father and a surrogate mother. |
| US$12 billion Reliance group splits to settle leadership issues between the Ambani brothers. |
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| After winning a WTA tournament, Sania Mirza reaches 31 on the WTA ranking. First Asian woman to make it there; first Asian sportswoman to feature on the cover of Time. |
| The Pakistan cricket team tours India after six years. |
| Premier Hockey League is launched to sex up India’s National Game. |
| Vishvanathan Anand becomes the first non-Russian to win the chess Oscar for the fourth time. |
| Anju Bobby George wins the silver at the World Athletics finals in Monaco. |
| Bula Chowdhury becomes the first woman to swim the oceans of the five continents. |
| Twenty-eight-year-old Narain Karthikeyan becomes the first Indian to drive in F1 World Championship 2005. His F1 ranking 2005 was 18.
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