TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2017
2 DIARY OF EVENTS 2016
NATIONAL
JANUARY
Jan. 1: Delhi rolls out odd-even
car scheme.
Jan. 2: Six defence personnel are
killed and 18 injured after a group of
terrorists storms the Pathankot Air
Force base in Punjab. Four
terrorists killed after 16-hour fire
fight.
Jan. 3: National Security Guard
officer Lt. Col. Niranjan Kumar dies
and five others are injured while
trying to defuse an explosive
attached to a terrorists body.
Jan. 7: Jammu and Kashmir
Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad
Sayeed (79) passes away in New
Delhi of multiple organ failure.
Jan. 11: The Supreme Court
stays a notification issued by the
Centre allowing jallikattu .
Jan. 14: The Supreme Court
backs the odd-even car formula in
Delhi.
Jan. 16: Prime Minister
Narendra Modi unveils the Start-
up India, Stand-up India action
plan in New Delhi.
Easterine Kire, poet, novelist and
childrens writer from Nagaland is
presented The Hindu Prize, 2015,
for her novel When The River
Sleeps at the Lit for Life festival in
Chennai.
Jan. 17: Rohith Vemula (26), a
research scholar of the University of
Hyderabad, commits suicide on the
campus.
Jan. 20: The ISRO launches
IRNSS-1E, the fifth of the seven-
satellite Indian Regional Navigation
Satellite Sysem into space from
Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.
Jan. 25: India and France sign 14
pacts, including an MoU for
purchase of Rafale fighter jets.
Danseuse Yamini
Krishnamurthy, Dr. V. Shanta,
former J&K Governor Jagmohan,
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and Dhirubhai
Ambani (posthumous) prominent
among Padma Vibhushan awardees.
Actor Anupam Kher,
sportspersons Saina Nehwal
(badminton), Sania Mirza (tennis),
Robert Blackwill of the U.S. (Public
Affairs) Udit Narayan Jha and Indu
Jain among 10 Padma Bhushan
awardees.
Ajay Devgn, Priyanka Chopra, S.S.
Rajamouli, Madhur Bhandarkar, Dr.
Mylswamy Annadurai, Piyush
Pandey, Dilip Sanghvi, Dr.
Chandrasekar S. Thoguluva, Ujjwal
Nikam, Saeed Jaffrey (posthumous)
prominent among 83 Padma Shri
Air India crew in New Delhi getting ready for the worlds longest
all-women non-stop flight to San Francisco.
recipients.
Jan. 30: Tamil Nadu Chief
Minister, Jayalalithaa inaugurates
Greater Chennai Corporation
comprising 42 additional local
bodies in Kancheepuram and
Tiruvallur districts.
FEBRUARY
Feb. 2: The Supreme Court
refers eight curative petitions
against Section 377 of IPC,
criminalising consensual sexual acts
among LGBT adults in private, to a
five-judge Constitution Bench.
Feb. 3: Nine soldiers of the 19
Madras Regiment, four from Tamil
Nadu, are buried alive under snow
after their camp, at a height of
19,600 feet in the northern parts of
Siachen glacier, is hit by an
avalanche.
Feb. 8: Lashkar operative David
Coleman Headley names Jamaat-
ud-Dawa chief and 26/11
mastermind Hafiz Saeed as the head
of the Lashkar-e-Taiba during his
deposition before a special court in
Mumbai, via videoconferencing
from the U.S.
Lance Naik Hanamanthappa
Koppad is found alive under 35 feet
of snow in the Siachen glacier.
Feb. 11: Lance Naik
Hanamanthappa Koppad dies at the
Research and Referral Hospital,
New Delhi.
Feb. 12: A Delhi court remands
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Students Union president Kanhaiya
Kumar to three days police custody
after charging him with sedition.
Feb. 15: K. Prithika Yashini is all
set to take over as the nations first
transgender sub-inspector of police
following receipt of the
appointment order.
Feb. 19: Army called in as one
dead and 60,000 homeless.
person is killed in police firing after
a stir demanding quota for Jats
turns violent in Haryana.
Presidents rule lifted and
dissident Congress leader Kalikho
Pul is sworn in Arunachal Pradesh
Chief Minister.
Feb. 20: Four more persons are
killed in police firing as stir by Jats
in Haryana intensifies.
The 14th Tamil Nadu Assembly
passes bills amending Municipal
and Panchayat laws to raise the
quota for women from 33 to 50 per
cent in local bodies.
Feb. 22: Three persons are killed
in police firing in Sonipat district in
Haryana, taking the toll to 16 as Jats
continue stir.
Feb. 25: The Railway Budget
leaves passenger fares untouched.
Offers bouquet of services like
cuisine of choice and optional
insurance at the time of booking, to
woo travellers.
Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt
leaves Yerwada prison in Pune eight
months before completing a five-
year sentence for his role in the
1993 Mumbai serial blasts.
Feb. 27: The West Bengal
Assembly passes Dunlop India
Limited (Acquisition and Transfer
of Undertaking) Bill, 2016.
Hasnain Warekar kills 14
members of his family after a
daavat at his house in
Kasarvadavali in Thane and hangs
himself.
Feb. 28: Prime Minister
Narendra Modi gives nod for the
setting up of the Bank Board Bureau
with former CAG Vinod Rai as its
first chairman.
Feb. 29: Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley dedicates Union Budget to
farmers, the poor and vulnerable
sections of society. Allocates Rs.
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87,765 crore to boost rural
development.
Former CJI H.L. Dattu takes over
as the National Human Rights
Commission chairperson.
MARCH
March 1: Martin Prakkatts
Charlie bags eight awards at the
Kerala Film Awards. Dulqer
Salmaan wins Best Actor honours
for Charlie and Parvathy Best
Female Actor (Charlie and Ennu
Ninte Moideen ).
March 6: The Justice Vishnu
Sahai Commission absolves the SP
Government in U.P. of direct
responsibility for the 2013
Muzaffarnagar riots that left 60
Air India operates worlds
longest all-women non-stop flight
from New Delhi to San Francisco
covering around 14,500 km in close
to 17 hours.
Malayalam actor Kalabhavan
Mani dies at a hospital in Kochi.
March 7: Harsha Chawda-Shah,
Indias first test tube baby gives
birth to a son at the Jaslok Hospital
in Mumbai.
March 8: Union Finance
Minister Arun Jaitley announces
the withdrawal of the budget
proposal on taxing EPF.
March 9: The Lok Sabha passes
The Enemy Property (Amendment
and Validation) Bill, 2016 amending
the Enemy Property Act, 1968.
March 10: The Rajya Sabha
passes a landmark Real Estate Bill.
The ISRO successfully puts into
orbit Indias sixth dedicated
navigation satellite, the IRNSS-1F
from the Satish Dhawan Space
Centre, Sriharikota.
March 11: Kakrapar nuclear
plant in Gujarat is shut down
indefinitely following a rupture in
the coolant system of one of the
reactors.
The Supreme Court commutes to
life the death penalty of three
convicts in the February 2, 2000
Dharmapuri bus burning case in
which three TNAU students were
killed.
The Lok Sabha clears the Aadhaar
(Targeted Delivery of Financial and
other Subsidies, Benefits and
Services) Bill, 2016 as a money bill.
March 14: The Punjab Assembly
passes The Punjab Sutlej Yamuna
Link Canal (Rehabilitation and
Re-vesting of Proprietary Rights)
Bill, 2016, to denotify land acquired
to build the SYL canal in Punjab.
March 16: Parliament passes the
Aadhaar Bill, 2016.
March 17: The Bombay High
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Court quashes the death sentence
awarded to Mirza Himayat Baig, the
lone convict in the February 13,
2010, blast at the German Bakery
restaurant in Punes Koregaon Park
that killed 17 and injured 58. Life
sentence for possession of
explosives confirmed.
March 19: A Delhi court grants
bail to S.A.R. Geelani, former Delhi
University lecturer arrested on
sedition charges.
March 22: Violent protests rock
the University of Hyderabad
campus at Gachibowli as Professor
P. Appa Rao assumes duty as Vice-
Chancellor.
March 27: Presidents rule is
imposed in Uttarakhand a day
before the confidence vote.
March 28: The Telecom
Commission gives nod for 112 to be
single number for all emergencies.
March 29: The Uttarakhand
High Court orders floor test and
allows nine disqualified MLAs to
vote separately.
The Haryana Assembly passes the
Haryana Backward Classes
(Reservation in Services and
Admission in Educational
Institutions) Bill, 2016.
Pakistans five member Joint
Investigation Team visits the
Pathankot airbase.
March 30: A Division Bench of
the High Court in Nainital stays the
floor test in Uttarakhand Assembly.
The Bihar Assembly unanimously
passes the new Bihar Excise
(Amendment) Bill, 2016 banning
sale and consumption of country-
made liquor across the State.
March 31: Twentysix persons
are killed and 88 injured as two
sections of the under-construction
2.2 km-long Vivekananda Flyover
collapses in a congested market area
in Burrabazar, north Kolkata.
APRIL
April 4 : The Centre orders the
formation of a special agency to
probe Indians who figure in the
Panama Papers.
West Bengal records 81 per cent
voter turnout and Assam 78 per cent
in the first phase of Assembly polls.
Peoples Democratic Party leader
Mehbooba Mufti is sworn in Jammu
and Kashmirs first woman Chief
Minister.
April 5 : Gatimaan Express, the
fastest train in the country, is
launched at a function in New Delhi.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
unveils the Stand-up India scheme
at a function in Noida.
April 6 : A special POTA court in
Mumbai awards lifer to three of the
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10 convicted in the triple blasts of
2002-2003.
April 8: The Shani Shingnapur
temple in Maharashtra lifts the 400-
year-old ban on the entry of women
into the sanctum sanctorum .
April 10 : Over 109 persons are
killed and 1,090 injured after a
fireworks show held despite a ban at
the Puttingal Devi Temple at
Paravur in Keralas Kollam district
goes awry.
April 11: Eightyfive per cent
turnout in the second and final phase
of Assam Assembly polls.
April 12: The Haryana
Government decides to rename
Gurgaon as Gurugram and its
neighbouring district Mewat as Nuh.
April 15: The odd-even vehicle
scheme is back in Delhi.
April 17: The Patidar
communitys stir seeking quota and
release of Hardik Patel in Gujarat
again turns violent.
Nearly 80 per cent voting in Phase
II of West Bengal Assembly polls.
April 19: The Centre rejects the
Tamil Nadu Governments proposal
to free seven life-term convicts in
the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
April 20: The Navy grants
permanent commission to seven
women officers and formalises plans
to grant it in eight branches from
2017.
Shaktiman, the police horse which
lost a leg after an attack by BJP MLA
Ganesh Joshi on March 14 during a
protest march near the Uttarakhand
Assembly, dies.
April 21: Violence mars polling in
Phase III of West Bengal Assembly
elections which sees a 79.2 per cent
turnout.
The Uttarakhand High Court
quashes the Centres order imposing
Presidents rule in the State and
orders floor test on April 29.
Environmentalist R.K. Pachauri
accused of sexual harassment steps
down as a member of the TERI
governing council.
April 22: The Supreme Court
restores Presidents rule in
Uttarakhand till April 27.
April 25: Over 78 per cent of the
electorate votes in the fourth phase
of the West Bengal Assembly polls.
April 26: A massive fire at Delhis
National Museum of Natural
History destroys an entire collection
of invaluable flora and fauna.
April 27:The Supreme Court
extends its stay on the quashing of
the Central rule in Uttarakhand.
April 28: Prime Minister
Narendra Modi names Indias own
navigational system NAVIC
(Navigation with Indian
Investigators taking a look at the debris of a collapsed building
after a fireworks display went awry at a temple festival in Paravur
in Kollam district, Kerala.
Constellation) after the launch of
the seventh and final satellite of the
Indian Regional Navigation Satellite
System, the IRNSS 1G from
Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
April 29: The Gujarat
government announces a 10 per cent
quota for the economically
backward in the general category.
A Chennai sessions court acquits
Kanchi Acharya Jayendra
Saraswathi and eight others in the
September 20, 2002 auditor
Radhakrishnan assault case.
April 30: The Supreme Court
says no to diesel-run cabs in the
National Capital Region.
The fifth phase of the West Bengal
Assembly polls witnesses nearly 80
per cent turnout.
MAY
May 1: Prime Minister Narendra
Modi launches the Pradhan Mantri
Ujjwala Yojana, which aims at
providing five crore LPG
connections to women in BPL
households over the next three
financial years at a cost of Rs.8,000
crore, in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh.
The Real Estate (Regulation and
Development) Act, 2016 comes into
force in Tamil Nadu.
May 2: Industrialist Vijay Mallya
resigns from Rajya Sabha.
Three persons are held for the
Uttarakhand forest fires. Fires
partially damage the 113-year-old
Kalka-Shimla Mountain Railway in
Himachal Pradesh.
May 3: Bollywood actor Amitabh
Bachchan receives the Best Actor
honour for his role of a
hypochondriac father in Piku , at the
63rd National Film Awards
ceremony in New Delhi. Kangana
Ranaut gets Best Actress award for
Tanu Weds Manu Returns . Veteran
actor Manoj Kumar is awarded the
47th Dada Saheb Phalke Award.
May 5: Eighty five per cent
polling is registered in the last phase
of West Bengal elections.
The Lok Sabha approves the
Finance Bill 2016.
May 6: Nepal cancels Presidents
visit and recalls its Ambassador to
India.
May 9: Over 37,000 files
pertaining to India among 2.6
terabyte of Panama Papers data
released by the International
Consortium of Investigative
Journalists.
May 10: Floor test held in
Uttarakhand Assembly.
Tina Dabi of New Delhi tops the
UPSC exam in her first attempt.
Railway officer Athar Amir Ul Shafi
Khan from Jammu and Kashmir
gets the second rank.
May 11: .The Supreme Court
approves the vote of confidence won
by Harish Rawat in the Uttarakhand
Assembly. Centre revokes
Presidents rule.
The Navys Sea Harrier jump jets
bid adieu after being in service for
33 years.
May 13: The Supreme Court
upholds law criminalising
defamation.
The National Investigation
Agency drops all charges against
Sadhvi Pragya Thakur and five
others in the September 29, 2008
Malegaon blasts. Charges against 10
others, including the key accused Lt.
Col. Prasad Shrikant Purohit under
MCOCA goes.
May 16: Voters cast ballots in
Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu,
(73.76 per cent turnout) Kerala (74
per cent) and the Union Territory of
Puducherry (84.11 per cent).
May 17: Union Urban
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Development Minister Venkaiah
Naidu flags off the trial run of the
countrys first driverless metro train
at Mukundpur in New Delhi.
May 18: The Apple CEO Tim
Cook announces a $1 billion
investment in taxi hailing company,
Didi Chuxing in Mumbai.
May 19: The AIADMK emerges
victorious in Tamil Nadu polls
breaking a pattern that held since
1989.
The Trinamool Congress
trounces the Left Front in West
Bengal to retain power.
The Congress is routed in Kerala
by the LDF and the BJP bags Assam.
In Puducherry, the Congress-DMK
alliance wins.
May 23: Jayalalithaa is sworn in
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister.
May 24: Sarabananda Sonowal is
sworn in Assams first BJP Chief
Minister.
May 25: Pinarayi Vijayan takes
oath as Kerala Chief Minister at a
function at the Central Stadium in
Thiruvananthapuram.
Sensex gains 575.70 points to
reach 25,881.17, the highest close
since December 3, 2015.
May 26: The Punjab and
Haryana High Court stays the
reservation for Jats and five other
communities provided by the
Haryana government.
The Supreme Court allows Italian
marine Salvatore Girone to go
home.
May 27: TMC supremo Mamata
Banerjee is sworn in for a second
term as West Bengal Chief Minister.
May 28: The Election
Commission scraps elections in
Aravakurichi and Thanjavur in
Tamil Nadu.
May 29: The Centre decides to
cancel all tenders for defence
equipment won by Italys
Finmeccanica.
Kiran Bedi is sworn in
Puducherry Lt. Governor.
May 31: At least 19 persons,
including two Army officers are
killed in a massive fire at the Armys
Central Ammunition Depot in
Pulgaon town of Maharashtras
Wardha district.
Admiral Sunil Lanba assumes
charge as the 23rd Chief of the
Naval Staff.
JUNE
June 2: At least 24 persons,
including an SP are killed and 40
injured in clashes during an eviction
drive in Jawahar Bagh in Mathura,
Uttar Pradesh.
June 4: Invoking the new
juvenile law for the first time in the
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country, the Juvenile Justice Board
rules that a minor accused of killing
a business consultant in New Delhi
on April 4 while driving a Mercedes
car will be tried as an adult.
June 6: Congress leader V.
Narayanasamy is sworn in
Puducherry Chief Minister.
June 7: The Supreme Court
reserves verdict in the
disproportionate assets case
involving Tamil Nadu Chief
Minister Jayalalithaa on the 20th
day of the day-to-day arguments.
June 8: P. Rama Mohana Rao is
appointed Tamil Nadu Chief
Secretary.
June 10:The CBI arrests
Virendra Tawde, prime suspect in
the August 20, 2013 killing of
rationalist Narendra Dabholkar, in
Navi Mumbai.
June 12: Jaipurs Aman Bansal
tops the JEE (Advanced) for 2016.
June 15: The NDA government
approves the countrys first
National Civil Aviation Policy for
increasing air connectivity.
June 17: Eleven persons are
sentenced to life imprisonment in
the 2002 Gulbarg Society massacre
case in Gujarat by a special SIT trial
Court in Ahmedabad. Twelve
persons get seven year jail term and
one receives a 10-year term. All the
sentences to run concurrently.
June 18: Avani Chaturvedi,
Bhawana Kanth and Mohana Singh
become Air Forces first women
fighter pilots after receiving wings
and brevets at a graduation parade
at the Air Force Academy in
Dundigal, Hyderabad.
June 20: The Modi government
announces radical liberalisation
of the FDI regime and allows 100
per cent foreign holdings in defence,
civil aviation and pharmaceutical
sectors.
June 22: The ISROs PSLV C-34
rocket launches 20 satellites
weighing 1,288 kg in total at one go
from the Satish Dhawan Space
Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra
Pradesh.
June 24: S. Swathi, a software
engineer with Infosys is hacked to
death by a youth while waiting for a
train at the Nungambakkam
Railway Station in Chennai.
June 25: Eight CRPF personnel
are killed and 21 injured after an
attack by militants on the Srinagar-
Jammu highway in the Pampore
area.
June 27: India joins the 34-
member Missile Technology
Control Regime at a ceremony in
South Block, New Delhi.
Mysurus young king Yaduveer
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Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar
marries Trishika Kumari of
Rajasthans Dungarpur royal family
at a glittering ceremony at the Amba
Vilas Palace.
June 29: The National
Investigation Agency arrests five
men and detains six others in
Hyderabad after busting an IS
Module.
June 30: Gays, lesbians and
bisexual persons not third gender,
rules the Supreme Court.
JULY
July 1: Swathis suspected killer
Ramkumar is arrested by police in
Meenakshipuram, Tirunelveli,
Tamil Nadu.
Light Combat Aircraft Tejas,
designed and built in India joins the
IAF squadron Flying Daggers at a
ceremony in Bengaluru.
July 5: Prakash Javadekar is
elevated to Cabinet rank and given
HRD portfolio. Smriti Irani shifted
to Textiles Ministry and Venkaiah
Naidu gets I&B in a major reshuffle
of the Union Cabinet.
The Union Cabinet approves a
change in the names of the Madras,
Bombay and Calcutta High Courts.
July 6: Andhra Pradesh Chief
Minister Chandrababu Naidu
inaugurates the Pattiseema project
linking the Krishna and Godavari
rivers completed in 320 days.
July 7: The Maharashtra
government orders a probe into
Islamic preacher and televangelist
Zakir Naiks speeches that were
reported to have inspired some of
the Dhaka attackers.
July 8: The Supreme Court ends
immunity enjoyed by armed forces
in disturbed areas.
Hizbul Mujahideen commander
Burhan Wani is shot dead in a
gunfight in Kokernag in Anantnag
district, Jammu & Kashmir.
The Gujarat High Court grants
bail to Patel quota stir leader Hardik
Patel in two sedition cases.
July 9: Eleven persons are killed
and 120, including 96 security
personnel injured following violent
protests across the Kashmir valley
over the killing of Burhan Wani.
July 10: The second reactor of
Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant
in Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu
attains criticality.
July 11: Four Dalits are stripped
and publicly flogged for skinning a
dead cow in Mota Samadhiyala, a
village near Una town of Gir
Somnath district, Gujarat by a cow
vigilante group.
July 13: A Constitution Bench of
the Supreme Court quashes
Arunachal Pradesh Governor J.P.
Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu, Bangladesh
Railway Minister Md Mujibul Haque, Tripura Governor
Tathagata Roy and Chief Minister Manik Sarkar flaging off the
Agartala-New Delhi express train, in Agartala, Tripura.
Rajkhowas order to advance the
Assembly session from January 14,
2016 to December 16, 2015. The
BJP-propped Kalikho Pul
Government shown the door.
Nabam Tuki takes charge as Chief
Minister.
July 15: Dattatrey Phuge, Punes
Golden Man, who hogged the
limelight in 2013 after donning the
3.5 kg shirt made of 22 carat gold, is
bludgeoned to death in Pimpri-
Chinchwad township.
July 16: The Congress pulls off a
success in Arunachal Pradesh by
naming a new leader Pema Khandu.
The Mehbooba Mufti government
in Jammu and Kashmir stops cable
TV services and seizes newspapers.
July 17: Pema Khandu takes
oath as Arunachal Pradesh Chief
Minister.
July 18: Former cricketer Navjot
Singh Sidhu quits as Rajya Sabha
MP.
July 19: The Lok Sabha passes
bills awarding statutory status to
the NEET from the next academic
session. States quotas to stay.
July 20: Gujarat witnesses
violent protests and sporadic
clashes following a bandh called by
Dalit groups.
The Supreme Court refuses to
stay the disqualification of nine
rebel Congress MLAs in
Uttarakhand.
July 21: Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi
counterpart Sheikh Hasina jointly
inaugurate the Petrapole-Benapole
Integrated Checkpost in Kolkata.
July 22: An IAF aircraft en route
to Port Blair from Chennai with 29
persons on board goes missing over
the Bay of Bengal soon after takeoff
from the Tambaram airbase.
The Supreme Court asks Centre
to secure the Adarsh apartments
built at Colaba in South Mumbai
from the housing society.
July 26: The Lok Sabha passes
the Child Labour (Prohibition and
Amendment) Bill, 2016 that allow
kids under 14 to work in family
enterprises.
July 27: The foundation stone
for the Kalam memorial is laid at his
burial site in Pei Karumbu near
Rameswaram in Ramanathapuram.
The Lok Sabha passes the Benami
Transactions (Prohibition)
Amendment Bill, 2015.
Bezwada Wilson, campaigner
against manual scavenging and
Carnatic musician T.M. Krishna are
named for the Ramon Magsaysay
Award 2016.
July 29: The Army takes
possession of Adarsh Society
building in Colaba, Mumbai.
July 31: Three persons are
arrested by the U.P. police in the
gangrape of a mother-daughter duo
by dacoits in Bulandshahr on the
intervening night of July 29-30.
Tripura Sundari Express linking
Agartala and Delhi is flagged off by
the Union Railway Minister Suresh
Prabhu in Agartala. Foundation
stone laid for the India-Bangladesh
BG link between Agartala and
Akhaura.
AUGUST
Aug. 1: The AIADMK expels
Rajya Sabha MP Sasikala Pushpa.
The Tamil Nadu Assembly passes
a resolution urging the Centre to
rename Madras High Court as High
Court of Tamil Nadu.
The Bihar Assembly passes the
amended Excise and Prohibition
Bill 2016.
Aug. 2: The Maharashtra Control
of Organised Crime Act Court
sentences 26/11 handler Zabiuddin
Ansari alias Abu Jundal and six
others to life term in the 2006
Aurangabad arms haul case.
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Aug. 3: The Rajya Sabha passes
after a nearly seven-hour debate the
Constitution Amendment Bill
paving the way for the Goods &
Services Tax, by a two-thirds
majority with all parties barring the
AIADMK which staged a walkout,
voting in support.
Aug. 4: The Delhi High Court
holds that the Lt. Governor is the
administrative head of the capital
and it continues to be a Union
Territory.
Aug. 5: At least 13 persons are
killed and over 20 injured after
three suspected Bodo militants
attack Balajan Tiniali market in
Assams Kokrajhar district.
Aug. 7: Vijay Rupani in sworn in
as the 16th Chief Minister of
Gujarat at a function at the Mahama
Mandir in Gandhinagar.
The Kerala Congress (M) ends its
35-year-old relationship with the
UDF.
Aug. 8: All 443 members present
in the Lok Sabha barring the
AIADMK, vote in favour of the
Constitution 122 nd Amendment
Bill, 2014, paving the way for the
Goods and Services Tax.
The Mental Health Care Bill, 2013
which seeks to decriminalise suicide
is passed by the Rajya Sabha.
Aug. 9: A sum of Rs. 5.78 crore is
looted by thieves who break open
the roof of a parcel van attached to
the Salem-Chennai Express that
carried 226 wooden boxes of soiled
but usable currency totalling Rs.
325 crore.
Manipurs Iron Lady Irom French shipbuilder DCNS.
Sharmila ends her 16-year-fast
seeking repeal of the AFPSA, in
Imphal.
Former Arunachal Pradesh Chief
Minister Kalikho Pul allegedly
commits suicide in Itanagar.
Aug. 10: Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, Russian President
Vladimir Putin and Tamil Nadu
Chief Minister Jayalalithaa dedicate
to the nation the first unit of the
Kudankulam Nuclear Power
Corporation through
videoconferencing.
Aug. 11: Maharashtras doctor
death Santosh Pol admits to killing
six persons, the first murder dating
back to 2003, after arrest in
Mumbai.
Aug. 12: The Assam Assembly
passes the Constitution
Amendment Bill on GST, becoming
the first State to ratify the
legislation.
Aug. 16: Bihar Assembly ratifies
the GST Bill in a special one-day
session.
Aug. 17: Najma Heptullah is
appointed Manipur Governor.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2017
Former Rajya Sabha MP. V.P. Singh
Badnore becomes Punjab Governor.
Banwarilal Purohit, a former MP
from Nagpur is to be Assam
Governor.
Aug. 18: The Hindu Playwright
Award 2016 is presented to Thomas
Manuel for his play Hamlet and
Angad , during the launch of the 12th
edition of The Hindu Theatre fest,
in Chennai.
Machhli, the worlds oldest
tigress in the wild, dies at the
Ranthambhore National Park in
Rajasthans Sawai Madhopur
district.
The Centre announces a special
assistance of Rs. 1,976.5 crore for
residual Andhra Pradesh.
Aug. 20:Maharashtra drafts its
own internal security act
Maharashtra Protection of Internal
Security Act, the first State to do so.
Aug. 21: Actor Kamal Haasan is
chosen for Chevalier Award by the
French Government.
Aug. 22: Tamil writer Perumal
Murugan is back in the literary
circuit with the launch of his
collection of poems at Teen Murti
Library in New Delhi.
The Bar Council of India
withdraws suspension of 126 Tamil
Nadu lawyers who had launched a
stir against amendments to the
Advocates Act.
Aug. 24: India begins probe into
the leak of more than 22,000 pages
of secret data detailing capabilities
of the Navys soon-to-be inducted
Scorpene submarines designed by
The Union Cabinet clears the
Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016
banning commercial surrogacy in
India. Only childless, straight
Indian married couples are eligible.
Aug. 26: Women can enter the
sanctum sanctorum of Haji Ali
Dargah in south central Mumbai,
says the Bombay High Court in a
landmark verdict.
Aug. 29: Curfew is lifted in
Kashmir after 51 days.
India and Myanmar sign MoUs to
build 69 bridges and to upgrade the
Kalewa-Yagyi road section, after
talks between Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and President U
Htin Kyaw in New Delhi.
The West Bengal Assembly passes
a resolution changing the name of
the State to Bengal in English and
Bangla in Bengali.
The Monorail project is back after
the Tamil Nadu government unveils
two planned corridors.
Aug. 31: The Supreme Court
quashes the CIP(M)-led West
Bengal governments acquisition in
2006 of 997 acres of farm land for
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Tata Motors Nano car plant in
Singur.
Delhi records 63.5 mm rainfall,
with 53 mm of rain in a span of just
two hours, throwing normal life out
of gear.
SEPTEMBER
Sept. 1: The Tamil Nadu
Government earmarks Rs.1.442.71
crore to give a fillip to public
healthcare schemes. Maternity
leave for government staff raised to
nine months.
Sept. 2: The one-day nationwide
industrial strike leads to a total
shutdown in Kerala and Tripura.
Elicits a mixed response in other
parts of the country.
Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao,
Governor of Maharashtra, assumes
office as acting Governor of Tamil
Nadu.
The National Green Tribunal
gives green signal to the Vizhinjam
seaport.
Sept. 3: IndiaPost releases a
commemorative postage stamp to
celebrate the canonisation of
Mother Teresa, at a ceremony in
Mumbai.
Sept. 6: The Karnataka
government decides to release
15,000 cusecs of Cauvery water a
day to Tamil Nadu for 10 days as per
the Supreme Court directive, issued
a day earlier even as protests rage.
Inter-state bus services suspended.
The RBI Governor Urjit Patel
assumes office.
Sept. 7: Karnataka begins
Cauvery water release to Tamil
Nadu. Protests and road blocks hit
transport in Mandya district.
The CBI files the first chargesheet
accusing Virendra Tawade, a
member of the Hindu Janjagruti
Samiti of murdering rationalist
Narendra Dabholkar in Pune on
August 20, 2013.
The Centre announces a special
package for Andhra Pradesh valid
for five years (2015-20)
Fresh violence leaves 60 injured
during four massive rallies in
Kashmir. Life remains hit for the
61st day.
Sept. 8: The Delhi High Court
sets aside the AAP governments
order appointing 21 MLAs as
Parliamentary Secretaries since it
lacked the LGs nod.
The GSLV-F05 places in orbit the
INSAT-3DR, an advanced weather
satellite after lift-off from
Sriharikota.
President Pranab Mukherjee
gives assent to the Constitution
Amendment Bill on GST.
Sept. 9: Most parts of Karnataka,
A car set on fire near the Nayandahalli Flyover on Mysore Road
during the disturbances on account of the Cauvery row in
Bengaluru.
especially Bengaluru and Mysuru
shut down in response to the State-
wide bandh against the Supreme
Courts order on Cauvery water
release.
Sept. 12: Large-scale violence
and arson in Bengaluru and parts of
Karnataka following the Supreme
Courts refusal to freeze its order on
Cauvery water release. One killed
and four injured in police firing.
Vehicles bearing TN registration
numbers targeted.
Arunachal Pradesh Governor, J.P.
Rajkhowa is dismissed by President
Pranab Mukherjee.
The Union Cabinet gives nod for
the setting up of the Goods &
Services Tax Council and its
Secretariat.
Sept. 13: Seven prominent
women artistes vocalists Girija
Devi, Kishori Amonkar, Aruna
Sairam and Vishaka Hari; dancers
Yamini Krishnamurthy and
Vyjayantimala Bali; and Pandavani
exponent Teejan Bai are
presented with the Dr. M.S.
Subbulakshmi Centenary Awards at
a function in Mumbai.
Sept. 14: West Bengal Chief
Minister, Mamata Banerjee hands
over land documents to 9,117 Singur
farmers and compensation cheques
to 806 ryots. The day to be
celebrated as Singur Dibas.
Navjot Singh Sidhu resigns from
the BJP.
Anil Ambani-led Reliance
Communications signs pact to
merge wireless business with Aircel
Ltd., marking the largest-ever
consolidation in the telecom sector.
Sept. 15: The Supreme Court
exonerates Govindachamy of
murder charge in the rape and
killing of Soumya near Shoranur in
Kerala on February 1, 2011, but
upholds life sentence.
Sep. 16: Congress receives a jolt
as 43 of the 44 Congress MLAs in
Arunachal Pradesh, including Chief
Minister Pema Khandu join the
Peoples Party of Arunachal, a part
of the North East Democratic
Alliance, a BJP-led front.
The dawn-to-dusk State-wide
bandh seeking Tamil Nadus rightful
share of Cauvery water passes off
peacefully.
The Delhi High Court holds that
photocopying of course packs
prepared by Delhi University does
not amount to copyright violation.
Sept. 17: Indias latest guided
missile destroyer Mormugao is
launched at the Mazagaon Docks in
Mumbai.
Sept. 18: Nineteen soldiers are
killed in a pre-dawn attack by four
terrorists on an Army
administrative unit near its brigade
headquarters in Baramulla districts
Uri sector in Jammu and Kashmir.
P. Ramkumar, the lone suspect in
the Swathi murder case commits
suicide inside the Puzhal Central
Prison in Chennai.
Sept. 20: The Supreme Court
directs Karnataka to release 6000
cusecs of Cauvery water per day to
Tamil Nadu up to September 27.
Sept. 21: The Union Cabinet
decides to do away with the 92-
year-old practice of a separate
Railway Budget and to merge it with
the General Budget.
The Chennai Metro Rails second
line from Little Mount to Chennai
airport is inaugurated by Tamil
Nadu Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa.
Sept. 23: India signs 7.87
billion deal with France for the
purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jets, in
New Delhi.
Two beach shack workers accused
in the rape and murder of British
teenager Scarlet Keeling on
February 18, 2008 at the Anjuna
beach in north Goa are acquitted by
the Goa Childrens Court.
Sept. 25: Curfew is lifted from all
parts of Kashmir after 79 days.
Sept. 26: The Union government
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decides to suspend talks on the
Permanent Indus Commission until
"terror comes to an end".
The PSLV launches eight
satellites, including weather
satellite SCATSAT-1, two satellites
PRATHAM and PISAT from Indian
academic institutions from the
Satish Dhawan Space Centre in
Sriharikota in AP and places them
in two different orbits.
Sept. 27: India decides to
boycott the 19th SAARC summit in
November in Islamabad.
Sept. 28: The Supreme Court
allows Italian marine Massimiliano
Latorre to stay on in Italy till a final
decision is taken by the
International Tribunal for the Law
of the Sea on Indias jurisdiction to
try him and his compatriot
Salvatore Girone for the murder of
two Kerala fishermen in 2012.
Sept. 29: The Indian Army
carries out surgical strikes targeting
eight terrorist "launchpads along
the LoC in Pakistan-occupied
Kashmir and inflicts significant
casualties.
Sept. 30: The Supreme Court
orders former RJD MP Mohd.
Shahabuddin to be sent back to
prison, 20 days after he was released
on bail.
The Patna High Court sets aside
the amended Bihar Prohibition and
Excise Bill, 2016.
OCTOBER
Oct. 1: The Government receives
bids worth more than Rs. 53,000
crore on the first day of the biggest
ever auction of the countrys
telecom spectrum (2,300 MHz
worth Rs. 5.6 lakh crore).
Oct. 2: Nitish Kumar
Government notifies the new Bihar
Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016 at
a special Cabinet meeting.
Oct. 3: Karnataka starts release
of 6,800 cusecs of Cauvery water for
Tamil Nadu following a unaminous
resolution in both the Houses.
The Supreme Court confirms the
jail term of 25 years without
remission to Vikas Yadav for the
2002 murder of Nitish Katara, an
MBA graduate.
Oct. 4: The Supreme Court puts
on hold order to set up the Cauvery
Management Board. Gives nod for
appointing a technical team.
Oct. 6: Renowned perfume
specialist Monika Ghurde is found
dead at her home in Salgonda in
north Goa.
Oct. 7: The Supreme Court stays
Patna High Court order staying the
States prohibition law.
Oct. 9: Rajkumar Singh, a former
5
security guard is arrested by Goa
police in Bengaluru for the murder
of perfumer Monika Ghurde.
Oct. 10: All the portfolios of
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister
Jayalalithaa (in hospital since
September 22) are reallocated to
Finance Minister O.
Panneerselvam.
Oct. 14: The BJP joins the Pema
Khandu government in Arunachal
Pradesh.
Oct. 15: India and Russia sign 16
deals, including one on the Rs.
39,000 crore S-400 missile systems
to boost air defence after the
summit between Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and President
Vladimir Putin in Benaulim, Goa.
Oct. 16: The 8th BRICS summit
in Benaulim, Goa ends with the
adoption of the Goa Declaration
which pledges opposition to
terrorism.
The time for condemning the
state-sponsored terrorism is long
gone. It is time to stand up and act,
and act decisively, says Prime
Minister Narendra Modi at the first
BRICS-BIMSTEC outreach meeting
in Mobor, Goa.
Oct. 17: At least 25 persons are
killed and 120 injured after a major
fire at the 1,000-bed SUM Hospital
in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
Thousands are arrested in Tamil
Nadu while taking part in a 48-hour
rail roko agitation called by farmers
and several Opposition parties
urging setting up of the Cauvery
Management Board.
Oct. 18: Rights activist Irom
Sharmila launches a new political
party named Peoples Resurgence
and Justice Alliance.
Oct. 19: The Rajasthan High
Court orders dissolution of the
State OBC Commission.
Oct. 20: Former Uttar Pradesh
Congress president Rita Bahuguna
Joshi joins the BJP.
The West Bengal Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee presides over
resumption of farming on the
erstwhile Tata Motors site in Singur
after a decade. Over 103 acres of
arable land handed over to 298
farmers.
Oct. 21: The BSF kills seven
Pakistan Rangers personnel in
Hiranagar, Jammu after a sniper
attack leaves a jawan injured.
The Rajasthan government
promulgates an ordinance for
setting up a new OBC Commission.
Oct. 22: Two Jaish-e-
Muhammad militants and a
Pakistani spy are arrested in two
separate operations in Jammu and
Kashmir.
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Oct. 23: INS Viraat, the worlds
oldest aircraft carrier is accorded a
grand send-off at Ernakulam Wharf
in Kochi.
Gurgaon city is officially renamed
Gurugram.
Oct. 24: The Tata Sons board
sacks Cyrus Ministry as Chairman.
Ratan Tata to be interim chairman.
Twentyfour members of the CPI
(Maoist) are killed in the Bejjangi
forest area near Panusput village in
Odishas Malkangiri district in a
joint operation by AP and Odisha
special police forces.
Oct. 26: A special court for CBI
cases in Bengaluru acquits
Karnataka BJP president and
former Chief Minister B. S.
Yeddyurappa in a graft case.
The Madras High Court quashes
the Tamil Nadu Establishment of
Private Law Colleges (Prohibition)
Act, 2014 that imposed a blanket ban
on setting up private colleges in the
State declaring it ultra vires the
Constitution.
Oct. 27: Mehmood Akhtar, a
Pakistan High Commission staffer is
declared persona non grata a day
after being caught receiving defence-
related information from two Indian
spies and asked to leave India.
Oct. 31: Eight alleged members of
the SIMI and undertrial prisoners
are shot dead by Madhya Pradesh
police near Bhopal, hours after they
escaped from the citys central jail
after killing a security guard.
NOVEMBER
Nov. 1: Eight civilians are killed
in firing and shelling by Pakistan
Rangers along the International
Border and the LoC in the Jammu
region.
Nov. 2: Ram Kishen Grewal, a
retired Army subedar commits
suicide over OROP plunging the
capital into chaos.
Nov. 6: An emergency meeting of
the Delhi Cabinet decides to shut
down schools for three days as air
pollution levels remain alarmingly
high.
Nov. 7: India and the U.K. sign
two MoUs on ease of doing business
and intellectual property-related
issues during summit level meeting
between Prime Ministers Narendra
Modi and Theresa May at
Hyderabad House in New Delhi.
Delhi orders de-registration of
diesel vehicles older than 15 years.
Nov. 8: Five hundred and 1,000
rupee notes cease to be legal tender,
after Prime Minister Narendra
Modi announces the decision in a
surprise address to the nation.
The demonetised high value
currency notes.
Nov. 10: The Supreme Court
holds Punjab Termination of Water
Agreements Act of 2004
unconstitutional and concludes ambush in the Machhil sector of
that it was designed illegally to deny
water to Haryana and Rajasthan.
Nov. 13:The government starts
issuing new Rs.500 notes.
Two young musicians, Dharini
Veeraraghavan from Mumbai and
Tejas Mallela from Hyderabad, are
presented The Hindu Saregama
M.S. Subbulakshmi Award, 2016 at
the Music Academy in Chennai.
Nov. 15: The Supreme Court
refuses to stay notification on
demonetisation.
Nov. 16: The Supreme Court Keralas Malappuram district.
dismisses Tamil Nadu's plea to
review its 2014 judgment banning
jallikattu .
Nov. 17: PAN card made
mandatory for all new bank
accounts, except those opened
under the Jan Dhan Yojana.
Nov. 18: Another Time , the first after storming the high-security
feature film by Iranian filmmaker
Nahid Hassanzadeh wins the best
film award at the 22nd Kolkata
International Film Festival.
Nov. 19: The NIA launches a
probe into the activities of the
Islamic Research Foundation and
searches office premises in Dongri,
Mumbai.
Three Army jawans are killed and
four injured in an ambush by the
ULFA and the NSCN-K at Pengeri
in Assam's Tinsukia district.
Aravakurichi in Karur district,
Tamil Nadu records 81.92 per cent
voting and Thanjavur 69.41 in the
Assembly polls. Seventyone per cent
polling registered in
Thirupparankundram byelection.
Nellithope in Puducherry witnesses
a record 85.67 per cent turnout.
Normal life resumes in Kashmir
valley after 133 days of shutdown.
Nov. 20: At least 146 people are
killed and over 200 injured as 14
bogies of the Patna-bound Indore-
Rajendranagar Express go off the
track between Pukharyan and Malsa a tree uprooted by Cyclone Vardah in Chennai city.
THE HINDU TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2017
stations in Kanpur Dehat district, Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.
Uttar Pradesh. Dec. 9: Former Chief of the IAF
Renowned playback singer S. P. Air Chief Marshal (Retd.) S.P. Tyagi
Balasubrahmanyam is conferred the is arrested by the CBI in New Delhi
Centenary Award for Indian Film in the AgustaWestland VVIP
Personality of the Year 2016 at the chopper deal.
47th International Film Festival of The Delhi High Court restores for
India inaugural in Panaji, Goa. trial whether photocopying study
Nov. 21: India becomes an material for course packs is a
associate member of the Geneva- violation of copyright.
based European Organisation for Dec. 12: Cyclone Vardah makes
Nuclear Research (CERN) following landfall in Chennai with wind
the signing of an agreement in speeds touching 110 kmph to 120
Mumbai. kmph leaving behind a trail of
Nov. 22: Three soldiers of the destruction.
Rashtriya Rifles unit of 53 Infantry Dec. 14: The Rajya Sabha passes
Brigade are killed and ones body the Rights of Persons with
mutilated by Pakistan Army in an Jayalalithaa Disabilities Bill, 2014 with more
benefits.
north Kashmirs Kupwara. after three militants launch a Dec. 16: The Supreme Court
The AIADMK bags all the three suicide attack on the White Knight orders the setting up of a five-judge
Assembly seats in Tamil Nadu with Corps of Northern Commands constitution bench to test the
comfortable margins. The Congress strategic 16 Corps, one of the biggest validity of a November 8
wins the Nellithope byelection. Army formations, located at demonetisation notification.
Nov. 24: The exchange of old Rs.Nagrota, around 20 km from The Lok Sabha passes the Rights
1000 and Rs. 500 notes at banks andJammu city. of Persons With Disabilities Bill,
post offices stopped. Lok Sabha passes The Taxation 2014.
Koppam Devarajan, CPI (Maoist) Laws (2nd Amendment) Bill 2016 The winter session of Parliament
central committee leader and a which seeks to tax money deposited ends without transacting crucial
woman naxal are killed in an in bank accounts post business.
encounter at Unakkappara near demonetisation. Dec. 19: An NIA special court in
Padukka in the Nilambur forests in Nov. 30: The Supreme Court Hyderabad awards death penalty for
orders all cinema halls to five IM operatives for the 2013
Nov. 25: The Supreme Court mandatorily play the national Dilsukhnagar twin blasts.
orders a blanket ban on the sale ofanthem before every screening and Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar is
fire crackers in Delhi and the NCR.all those present have to stand up appointed the 44th CJI.
Nov. 27: Harminder Singh to show respect. Dec. 21: Income Tax raids are
Mintoo, chief of the Khalistan held at the residential and office
DECEMBER
Liberation Front and five others are premises of the Tamil Nadu Chief
freed by at least five armed men Dec. 5: Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary, P. Rama Mohana Rao in
Minister Jayalalithaa (68), dies of Chennai.
Nabha Central Jail near Patiala in heart failure at the Apollo Hospital, The 2016 SASTRA-Ramanujan
Punjab. 74 days after being admitted there. award for mathematics is jointly
Nov. 28: Harminder Singh Dec. 6: Former Tamil Nadu awarded to Maksym Radziwill of
Mintoo is arrested by the Delhi Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa is McGill University, Canada and
Police Special Cell near the Hazratburied with full state honours on Kaisa Matomaki of University of
Nizamuddin railway station in New the Marina Beach in Chennai. Turku, Finland.
Delhi. Earlier, O. Panneerselvam is sworn Dec. 22: Girija Vaidyanathan is
Opposition holds protests against
in in her place. appointed Tamil Nadu Chief
demonetisation across the country. Dec. 7: .The ISRO launches Secretary.
Nov. 29: Seven Army personnel, RESOURCESAT-2A, a 1,235 kg The Delhi Lt. Governor Najeeb
including two officers are killed remote sensing satellite from Jung resigns.
Dec. 26: The Centre releases Rs.
1,981.54 crore for the Polavaram
project along the Godavari river in
Andhra Pradesh.
Dec. 30: Eleven persons are
buried alive after a cave-in at a coal
mine in Jharkhand.
Dec. 31: The BJP forms
government in Arunachal Pradesh.
Anil Baijal is sworn in Delhi Lt.
Governor.
General Bipin Rawat takes over as
Army Chief and Air Chief Marshal
Birender Singh Dhanoa becomes
Chief of the Air Staff.
National Disaster Response Force personnel removing the trunk of V.K. Sasikala takes over as
AIADMK general secretary.

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INTERNATIONAL
JANUARY
Jan. 1: A new open-carry law
allowing Texans to wear their
handguns in holsters on their hips
takes effect.
Jan. 2: Saudi Arabia executes 47
persons, including a prominent Shia
cleric Nimr al-Nimr, the driving
force behind the 2011 protests.
Jan. 8: Mexico recaptures the
worlds top drug lord Joaquin El
Chapo Guzman Loera in the city of
Los Mochis, six months after his
escape from Altiplano prison.
Jan. 10: The Revenant bags
three awards best drama film,
best actor in a drama for Leonardo
DiCaprio and best director for
Alejandro G. Inarritu at the 73rd
Golden Globe Awards in Los
Angeles.
Jan. 14: The WHO declares an
end to the deadliest Ebola outbreak.
Jan. 15: At least 23 persons from
18 countries are killed and hundreds
taken hostage as Al-Qaeda attacks
the Splendid Hotel and a nearby
casino in the Burkina Faso capital
Ouagadougou.
Jan. 16: The U.S. lifts sanctions
against Iran.
Taiwans opposition leader Tsai
Ing-wen wins presidential polls.
Author Anuradha Roy wins the
DSC Prize for South Asian
Literature, 2016, for the novel
Sleeping on Jupiter , at the Fairway
Galle Literary Festival in Sri Lanka.
Jan.23: At east 13 persons are
killed in six States in road accidents
and six others elsewhere as
snowzilla pounds eastern U.S.
Metro and bus networks shut down
for the weekend in Washington,
buried under two feet of snow.
Jan. 24: British adventurer
Henry Worsley (55) dies in a
hospital in Punta Arenas, Chile
during his attempt to make history
by crossing the Antarctic alone.
Jan. 31: At least 60 people are
killed and 110 wounded by a car
bomb and two suicide bombers in
the Sayeda Zeinab district in the
Syrian capital Damascus.
FEBRUARY
Feb. 1: The National League for
Democracy MPs in Myanmar for the
first time take part in historic
Parliament session.
Feb. 6: At least 37 persons are
killed and hundreds trapped after a
powerful earthquake topples a
16-storey apartment housing almost
People walking away after explosions triggered by suicide
bombers rip through Brussels airport.
100 homes in Tainan, Taiwan.
Feb. 12: World powers announce
a new ceasefire plan for Syria after a
meeting in Munich, Germany.
British newspapers The
Independent and Independent on
Sunday are set to close their print
editions on March 26 and March 20.
Pope Francis and Russian
Orthodox Church head Patriarch
Kirill hold a historic meeting at the
Jose Marti airport in Havana, Cuba.
Feb. 14: Indo-British film-maker
Asif Kapadia wins BAFTA for his
poignant documentary Amy on late
British singer Amy Winehouse.
Feb. 15: The first train from
Chinas trading hub of Yiwu arrives
in Tehran covering over 10,399 km
in its 14-day journey.
Taylor Swift wins album of the
year for 1989 at the 58th annual
Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.
Feb. 17: The University of Texas
at Austin allows students to carry
guns into classrooms.
Feb. 19: The U.S. President
Barack Obama signs into law a
legislation passed by Congress
imposing new unilateral sanctions
against North Korea.
Feb. 20: British Prime Minister
David Cameron calls for a June 23
referendum on EU membership.
The Golden Bear is awarded to
Italian documentary Fire at Sea by
Gianfranco Rosi at the 66th Annual
Berlin International Film Festival.
Feb. 21: A provisional
agreement reached on Syrian
ceasefire. Over 119 persons are
killed and 282 injured in car bomb
attacks in Homs and suicide attacks
near a Shia shrine in Damascus.
Feb. 26: Iranians cast ballots in
polls to elect both the Parliament
and the Assembly of Experts.
Feb. 27: The first major ceasefire
of the five-year Syrian war that has
claimed 270,000 lives takes hold.
Feb. 28: Newspaper drama
Spotlight bags the best picture
award at the 88th Academy Awards
ceremony at Dolby Theatre in Los
Angeles. Leonardo DiCaprio wins
his first Oscar, for a best actor in
The Revenant . George Millers
post-apocalyptic chase film, Mad
Max:Fury Road bags six awards.
Best actress award is won by Brie
Larson ( Room ).
Feb. 29: Moderates backed by
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
secure victory.
MARCH
March 2: Nine persons,
including six armed terrorists are
killed in an attack on the Indian
consulate in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
March 3: The U.N. adopts a
resolution imposing new sanctions
on North Korea.
March 8: South Korea imposes
unilateral sanctions on North
Korea.
March 9: The Sri Lankan
Parliament adopts a resolution to
convert itself into a Constitutional
Assembly.
March 15: Htin Kyaw, a close
aide of NLD leader Aung San Suu
Kyi is elected the first civilian
President of Myanmar.
The U.S. eases travel and trade
restrictions on Cuba.
Sir Arthur Wiles, an Oxford
University professor is awarded the
Abel Prize, for his stunning proof
of Fermat last theorem, a 300-
year-old mystery.
March 18 : Salah Abdeslam, the
most wanted fugitive from the
November 13, 2015 Paris attacks, is
arrested after a shootout with the
police in the Molenbeek
neighbourhood of Brussels,
Belgium.
The EU and Turkey reach a deal
to ease the migrant crisis.
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March 19: Sixtytwo persons are
killed after a flydubai jet crashes in
Southern Russia while trying to
land in bad weather in Rostov-on-
Don.
March 21: This is a new day,
U.S. President Barack Obama says
after holding historic talks with
Cuban President Raul Castro at the
Havanas Palace of the Revolution.
March 22: At least 35 persons
are killed and 316 injured after a
series of explosions triggered by
suicide bombers rips through the
Brussels airport and a metro station
at Maalbeek in the Belgian capital.
March 24: Former Bosnian Serb
leader Radovan Karadzic is
sentenced to 40 years in jail by U.N.
judges who find him guilty of
genocide for the 1995 Srebrenica
massacre.
March 26: British newspaper
The Independent ends print edition
after 30 years and will be available
online only.
March 27: At least 72 people are
killed and more than 280 injured in
a suicide bomb attack in the parking
area of Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park in
Lahore, Pakistan.
March 30: Htin Kyaw is sworn
in Myanmars first civilian
President in more than 50 years.
NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi
Minister for Foreign Affairs.
APRIL
April 4: The Panama Papers, a
set of 11 million leaked documents,
exposing the internal operations of
law firm Mossack Fonseca names
many world leaders, celebrities and
more than 210,000 firms in 21
offshore jurisdictions.
Oil and gas giant BP agrees to pay
$ 20 billion to the American
government as damages over the
2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
April 6: French lawmakers pass
a controversial bill that makes it
illegal to pay for sex and imposes
fines on sex workersclients.
April 8: Paris attacks suspect
Mohamed Abrini is arrested in the
Anderlecht district of Brussels.
In a spaceflight first, a SpaceX
Falcon 9 rocket blasts off from
Florida on a NASA Cargo run to the
ISS and its reusable main stage
booster lands on an ocean platform.
April 11: Researchers produce
evidence, published in the journal
Science to link Zika virus to brain
defects in babies.
Kirpal Singh, an Indian ex-
serviceman languishing in the Kot
Lakhpat jail in Lahore for 24 years
on spying charges, is found dead.
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Pakistan authorities book the
former Indian naval commander
Kulbushan Jadhav, in their custody
for over a month, for terrorism.
April 13: Syrians cast ballots in
parliamentary polls.
April 15: Nine persons are killed
and over 880 injured after a 6.5
magnitude temblor rocks Japans
Kumamoto province on the island
of Kyushi.
April 16: Thirtytwo persons are
killed after another powerful quake
hits Kumamoto province in
southern Japan, leaving over 1,000
injured.
At least 350 people are killed and
more than 2,000 injured after a 7.8
magnitude earthquake rattles
Ecuador.
April 18: The AP wins the
Pulitzer Prize for public service.
Alisa J. Rubin of The New York
Times wins the prize for
international reporting. The New
Yorker bags two prizes, a year after
magazines qualified for the award.
April 21: The worlds oldest
serving royal and the longest-
reigning British monarch Queen
Elizabeth II turns 90.
April 22: Eminent Nepali Editor
Kanak Mani Dixit is arrested amid
allegations of financial irregularities
from Patan Dhoka area of
Kathmandu.
A total of 175 nations, including
India sign the Paris climate
agreement at the United Nations.
April 24: British astronaut Tim
Peake becomes the first man to
complete a marathon on Space.
April 30: Miss Ghana, Rebecca
Asamoah is crowned the first-ever
Miss Africa in Johannesburg.
Iraqi protestors storm Parliament
in Baghdads Green Zone and
indulge in vandalism.
MAY
May 2: The Adonia becomes the
first cruise ship from the U.S. to
arrive in Cuba in about 50 years.
The team at Laser Interferometer
Gravitational Wave Observatory
wins the Special Breakthrough Prize
in Fundamental Physics.
May 3: Donald Trump is
declared the presumptive nominee
for the U.S. presidency.
May 7: Sadiq Khan, a human
rights lawyer of Pakistani descent is
sworn in London Mayor at a
ceremony at Southwark Cathedral.
Khurram Zaki, a leading Pakistani
rights activist and his friend Rao
Khalid are shot dead at a restaurant
in Karachi.
May 10: Firebrand Filipino
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politician Rodrigo Duterte wins
presidency.
May 11: Bangladesh executes
Jamaat-e-Islami leader Motiur
Rahman Nizami at the Dhaka
Central Jail.
At least 94 people are killed and
150 injured after three car bomb
blasts rock Iraq.
May 12: Brazilian President,
Dilma Rousseff is suspended for six
months to face impeachment after a
nearly 22-hour debate in the Senate,
on charges that she broke budget
accounting laws.
May 16: South Korean author
Han Kang wins the Man Booker
International Prize for her book
The Vegetarian and shares it with
her translator Deborah Smith.
May 17: At least 72 people are
killed and more than 140 wounded
by three bombings in the Iraqi
capital Baghdad.
The U.S. Senate approves the
Justice Against Sponsors of
Terrorism Act that will allow the
September 11, 2001 victims to sue
Saudi Arabia over its possible role in
the attacks.
May 19: All 66 people on board
an EgyptAir flight from Paris to
Cairo are killed after it crashes into
the Mediterranean sea.
May 20: I, Daniel Blake by
British director Ken Loach wins the
Palme dOr for Best Picture at the
69th Cannes Film Festival.
May 21: Afghan Taliban leader
Mullah Akhtar Mansour is killed in
a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan.
May 23: India and Iran sign a
series of agreements that will allow
New Delhi to use the port of
Chahbahar to access Central Asia
and Afghanistan.
More than 148 people are killed in
seven near simultaneous bombings
in northwestern Syria.
May 25: Ukrainian pilot Nadiya
Savchenko who spent 709 days in a
Russian jail is freed by Russia as
part of a prisoner swap deal.
Rishi Nair, an Indian American
sixth grader from Florida takes top
honours at the 28th annual National
Geographic Bee held at the National
Geographic headquarters in
Washington.
May 27: U.S. President Barack
Obma pays moving tribute to
victims of the first atomic bombing
in Hiroshima, Japan, at the
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.
JUNE
June 1: The worlds longest rail
tunnel, 57-km Gotthard Base
Tunnel providing a rail link under
the Swiss Alps between northern
and southern parts of Europe is
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inaugurated.
June 5: Swiss voters reject a
proposal to introduce a guaranteed
basic income for everyone living in
the country, in a first such national
referendum.
Emmy winning American
journalist David Gilkey and his
translator Zabihullah Tamanna are
killed after their vehicle is struck by
shellfire in Helmand province while
travelling with an Afghan Army
unit.
Former Maldives Vice-President
Ahmed Adheeb is jailed for 10 years
on a terrorism charge following a
closed door trial.
June 6: Hillary Clinton clinches
the Democratic nomination for the
U.S. presidential polls.
June 7: Prime Minister
Narendra Modi presents the Global
Leadership Award to Amazon Inc.
CEO Jeff Bezos in Washington.
June 8: Prime Minister
Narendra Modi outlines his vision
for Indias partnership with the U.S.
in the 21st century addressing a
joint session of the U.S. Congress.
June 9: Maldives criminal court
jails former Vice-President Ahmed
Adheeb for 15 years for plotting to
kill President Abdulla Yameen.
June 10: Singer Christina
Grimmie, who starred in NBCs The
Voice is shot dead by a gunman
after a concert in Orlando, Florida.
June 11: The Solar Impulse 2, the
solar-powered airplane on a globe-
circling voyage that began in March
2015 from Abu Dhabi, the UAE
capital completes a trip across the
U.S.
June 12: Fortynine people are
killed and 53 injured in the worst
mass shooting in U.S. history as a
lone gunman, Omar Mateen, an
American citizen of Afghan origin,
goes on the rampage at Pulse, a gay
night club in Orlando, Florida. He is
later killed by police SWAT team
members after a three-hour
standoff.
Lin-Manuel Mirandas musical
biography Hamilton on the first U.S.
Treasury Secretary wins 11 Tonys at
the Tony Awards ceremony at the
Bacon Theatre in New York.
The Islamic States leader Abu
Bakr al-Baghdadi is killed in an air
raid by the U.S.-led coalition in
Raqqa, Syria.
June 14: The U.S. Senate fails to
recognise India as a global strategic
and defence partner of Washington
after a key amendment to the
National Defence Authorisation Act
could not be passed.
June 16: Jo Cox, a first-time
British Labour MP for Bately and
Spen and a supporter of Britain
remaining in the EU is shot dead at
the village of Birstall on the
outskirts of Leeds in West
Yorkshire.
June 19: Actor Anton Yelchin,
best known for playing the young
Russian starship navigator in the
rebooted series of Star Trek movies
is killed after being crushed by his
own car against a driveway wall.
June 22: Amjad Sabri, one of
Pakistans best known Sufi
musicians is shot dead in Karachi,
Pakistan while travelling by a car.
June 23: Britons cast ballots in
referendum on whether to stay in or
leave the EU.
A deadlock in the U.S. Supreme
Court leaves in place an appeals
court ruling blocking President
Barack Obamas immigration plan.
The Colombian government and
FARC rebels sign a ceasefire and
disarmament agreement in the
Cuban capital Havana.
June 24: Britian votes to leave
the European Union. London,
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Scotland and Northern Ireland
choose to remain in the bloc.
June 25: More than one million
Britons call for a repeat vote by
signing a petition on the official
government website.
Iceland begins voting in
presidential polls.
June 26: Ranveer Singh bags the
Best Male Actor Award and Deepika
Padukone is named Best Female
Actor and Priyanka Chopra named
Woman of the Year at the
International Indian Film Academy
Awards 2015 ceremony in Madrid,
Spain.
Spains second general election in
six months results in a hung
assembly.
June 28: Eighty people are killed
in intensified fighting and air strikes
in Yemen.
At least 42 persons are killed and
more than 200 wounded after
suicide bombers attack Ataturk
Airport in Istanbul, Turkey.
JULY
July 1: At least 20 people,
including Indian student Tarishi
Jain, nine Italians and seven
Japanese are killed by a group of
hostage-takers at Holey Artisan
Bakery, an upmarket caf in
Bangladesh capital Dhakas high
security diplomatic zone.
July 2: Six gunmen are killed and
one caught alive as security forces
end a 10-hour standoff at a Dhaka
caf.
Australia heads for a hung
Parliament after the counting of
more than half the votes cast in a
national poll a day earlier shows a
swing against the ruling coalition.
July 3: At least 292 people are
killed and more than 200 wounded
in a suicide car bombing at the
Karrada shopping district in the
Iraqi capital Baghdad.
July 5: NASAs solar-powered $
1.1 billion Juno spacecraft
successfully enters Jupiters orbit
after a five-year journey from Earth.
A black man Alton Sterling is shot
dead by police outside a
convenience store in Baton Rouge,
Louisiana. A video recording by a
bystander posted online sparks
protests.
July 6: South African
paralympian Oscar Pistorius is
given a six-year jail term by the
High Court in Pretoria for the
murder of his girlfriend Reeva
Steenkamp on Valentines Day in
2013.
Philando Castile, a black man is
killed by a Minneapolis area police
officer during a traffic stop in
Falcon Heights, a suburb of St. Paul,
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Minnesota, the U.S. His fiancee
streams live footage of the
aftermath on the Internet.
July 7: Russian President
Vladimir Putin signs into law a
package of controversial anti-terror
amendments.
The German Parliament passes a
landmark no means n rape law
broadening the definition of sex
crimes.
Five police officials are killed and
seven others injured in a sniper
attack by army veteran Micah
Xavier Johnson in Dallas, Texas
during a march to protest the
shooting of two African-American
men by policemen.
July 9: Hungarian film Its Not
The Time Of My Life wins the top
prize at the Czech Republics
Karlovy Vary film festival.
Umar Mansour, mastermind of
the 2014 attack on the Army School
in Peshawar, Pakistan, is killed in a
U.S. drone strike in the Bandar area
of Afghanistans Nangarhar
province.
July 11: Japan Prime Minister
Shinzo Abes coalition and allies win
two-thirds of the seats in polls to
the Parliaments upper house.
July 12: The Permanent Court of
Arbitration at the Hague, The
Netherlands rejects the legal
validity of the nine-dash line the
demarcation underlying Chinas
claim to most of the South China
Sea.
July 13: Theresa May takes over
as Britains new Prime Minister.
July 14: At least 84 people are
killed and 308 injured after a
Tunisian Mohamed Bouhlel ploughs
a massive truck through crowds
celebrating Bastille Day along the
seafront Promenade des Anglais in
Nice, French Riviera.
July 15: At least 265 people are
dead and 1,440 wounded as Turkey
crushes a coup attempt by the army.
Qandeel Baloch , Pakistans social
media star is killed by her cousin in
her family home on the outskirts of
Multan.
July 18: Turkeys Interior
Ministry fires 9,000 police officers.
This follows the arrests of 7,500
military personnel, 103 generals and
admirals and the suspension of
nearly 3,000 judges.
July 19: Hyderabad model Rohit
Khandelwal becomes the first
Indian ever to win the Mr. World
title at the grand finale of the
competition held in Southport in
the U.K.
Donald Trump wins nomination
as the Republic Party candidate in
the U.S. presidential polls.
July 22: At least nine persons

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are killed in a shooting rampage by
Ali David Sonboly, an 18-year-old
student at a mall in Munich.
Judith DSouza, Indian aid
worker kidnapped in Kabul is freed
from her captors ending a 43-day
ordeal.
July 23: At least 80 people are
killed in a suicide attack on a Hazara
demonstration in Afghanistan
capital Kabul, demanding that a
power line pass through their
electricity-starved province of
Bamiyan.
July 24: Nepal Prime Minister
K.P. Sharma Oli resigns, before
facing a no-confidence motion in
Parliament.
July 26: Solar Impulse 2 piloted
by Swiss pioneer Bertrand Piccard
completes the first around the world
flight without the use of fossil fuels
in Abu Dhabi covering 42,000 km in
17 stages across four continents.
Democratic Party makes Hillary
Clinton its nominee for the U.S.
presidential polls at the National
Convention in Philadelphia.
July 29: Italys long-awaited
much-disputed law on gay civil
unions takes effect.
July 30: Luke Aitkins, a skydiver
with more than 18,000 jumps
creates history by jumping without
parachute and lands in a net at the
Big Sky movie ranch on the
outskirts of Simi Valley in
California, the U.S.
July 31: Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdogans top aide Ali
Yazici among 1,389 military
personnel dismissed by a new
decree.
AUGUST
Aug. 1: Five persons on board a
Russian military helicopter are
killed after it is shot down in Idlib,
Syria.
Aug. 3: The CPN-Maoist
(Centre) chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Prachanda is elected Nepal Prime
Minister for a second time.
Three hundred people, mostly
Indians, have a miraculous escape
when an Emirates flight from
Thiruvananthapuram to Dubai
crash-lands and explodes at the
runway in Dubai International
Airport.
Aug. 6: Rebels capture key
military positions on the edges of
Aleppo, Syria.
Aug. 7: Thailand votes in a
referendum to approve a new
Constitution drawn up by the ruling
junta.
Aug. 8: At least 72 people, mostly
lawyers and journalists are killed
and 112 injured in a suicide strike at
Soldiers securing an area as supporters of Turkey's President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan protest in Istanbul's Taksim square.
the Civil Hospital in the Balochistan
provincial capital Quetta. Bilal
Anwar Kasi, president of the
Balochistan Bar Association is shot
dead by gunmen earlier in the day.
Aug. 12: Actor Robert De Niro is
presented with The Heart of
Sarajevo, the Sarajevo Film
Festivals first lifetime achievement
award.
Aug. 13: Protests rock
Milwaukee, the U.S. after a patrol
officer kills an armed suspect who
took flight after a traffic stop.
Aug. 14: SpaceX lands a reusable
Falcon 9 rocket on a floating drone
ship after it sent a Japanese
communications satellite into orbit.
Aug. 20: At least 54 people,
including 22 children are killed and
94 wounded in a blast triggered by a
12-year-old suicide bomber at a
wedding in Gaziantep, Turkey, near
the Syrian border.
Mexican writer Ignacio Padilla, a
leading member of the so-called
crack movement dies in a car
accident in Queretaro.
Aug. 23: A news report in The
Australian reveals the leak of
documents pertaining to the Indian
Navys Scorpene submarine project.
At least 16 persons, including
eight students are killed and 53
wounded in a 10-hour raid after
militants storm the American
University of Afghanistan in Kabul.
Aug. 24: A 6.2 magnitude
earthquake in Italy leaves 250 dead
and 368 injured.The villages of
Amatrice and Pescara del Tronto
are totally destroyed.
An earthquake of 6.8 magnitude
rattles central Myanmar damaging
scores of ancient Buddhist pagodas
in the former capital of Bagan.
Aug. 26: The Philippines
government and Maoist-led rebels
sign a ceasefire agreement after
talks in the Norwegian capital Oslo.
Aug. 28: Four Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
militants allegedly involved in the
2009 attack on the visiting Sri
Lankan cricket team are shot dead
by Pakistan police in Lahore.
Aug. 29: At least 71 people are
killed and 98 injured as an IS suicide
bomber rams an explosives-laden
car into an Army recruitment centre
in Aden, Yemen.
Aug. 31: Brazilian Senate
impeaches and removes from office
President Dilma Rousseff. Confirms
Vice-President Michel Temer as
President.
The first regular commercial
flight in more than 50 years from
the U.S. lands in Cuba.
Carnatic singer T.M. Krishna and
crusader against manual scavenging
Bezwada Wilson among six who are
presented with the Ramon
Magsaysay award for 2016 at a
ceremony in Manila.
SEPTEMBER
Sept. 1: Brazils ousted President
Dilma Rousseff appeals to the
Supreme Court to overturn the
Senates decision to remove her
from office.
Sept. 3: The U.S. and China
formally join the Paris Climate deal
at a ceremony in Hangzhou, China.
Sept. 4: Pope Francis proclaims
Mother Teresa of Kolkata a saint at
a canonisation mass attended by
100,000 pilgrims at the Vatican,
Rome.
Sept. 8: One country in our
neighbourhood produces and
exports terror, says the Prime
Minister Narendra Modi at the 14th
ASEAN-Indian summit in
Vientiane, Laos and demands
sanction against Pakistan.
Sept. 9: North Korea conducts
its largest atomic test in the
Punggye-ri area.
Sept. 10: The U.S. and Russia
clinch a deal on Syria after a
marathon meeting in Geneva.
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Philippines director Lav Diazs
revenge drama Ang Babaeng
Humayo (The Woman Who Left)
wins the Golden Lion for best film at
the 73rd Venice Film Festival.
Sept. 12: A nationwide ceasefire
comes into effect in Syria.
Britians former Prime Minister
David Cameron quits his Parliament
seat.
Sept. 15: China launches
Tiangong-2, its space lab from the
Jiuquan Satellite Center in Gobi
desert.
Sept. 16:
Dorothy Cann Hamilton (67),
founder of the French Culinary
Institute, dies of injuries after an
accident on Cape Breton Island in
Nova Scotia, Canada.
Sept. 17: Belgium announces the
euthanasia of a minor becoming the
first country in the world to do so.
Sept. 18: Fantasy epic Game of
Thrones makes television history by
bagging 12 Emmys at the 68th
Emmys in Los Angeles.
Sept. 19: The ruling United
Russia party bags 343 of the total
450 seats in Duma.
Sept. 20: The U.N. suspends all
aid convoys to Syria following an air
strike on food trucks that leaves 20
dead in Aleppo.
Keith Lamont Scott, a black man
is shot dead by the police triggering
protests in Charlotte, North
Carolina, the U.S.
Over 162 people are drowned
after a boat carrying migrants
capsizes near the Nile delta port city
of Rosetta, Egypt.
Sept. 22: A state of emergency is
declared in Charlotte and National
Guard Troops deployed following
two days of violent protests.
Sept. 23: Five persons are killed
during a shooting at Cascade Mall in
Burlington, north of Seattle in the
U.S. State of Washington.
Sept. 24: Jeremy Corbyn is
re-elected leader of Britains
Opposition Labour Party at the
partys annual conference in
Liverpool.
Sept. 25: Jordanian writer
Nahed Hattar is killed by a gunman
in Amman for sharing on social
media a caricature seen as insulting
Islam.
Sept. 26: Syria and Russia
continue air strikes on rebel-held
areas of Aleppo and the toll in the
four-day blitz reaches 128.
Colombian government and the
FARC rebel group sign a peace deal
to end their half century war.
Pakistans National Assembly
passes a landmark bill giving its
Hindu minority the right to register
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marriages.
Sept. 27: The U.S. names Jeffrey
DeLaurentis, Americas top
diplomat in Havana to be Cubas
first official Amassador in five
decades.
Sept. 28: The U.S. Senate rejects
President Barack Obamas veto of
the Justice Against Sponsors of
Terrorism Act allowing relatives of
the September 11 attacks to sue
Saudi Arabias government.
Sept. 29: Afghan President
Ashraf Ghani formalises a peace
deal with notorious warlord and
Hizb-i-Islami leader Gulbuddin
Hekmatyar in Kabul.
Sept. 30: Pakistan announces
indefinite postponement of the
SAARC summit.
OCTOBER
Oct. 2: The Colombian
government suffers a shock defeat
in a referendum as voters reject a
peace accord with the FARC rebels.
India ratifies the Paris Agreement
on Climate Change.
Oct. 3: Japans Yoshinori
Ohsumi wins the 2016 Nobel
Medicine Prize for his pioneering
work on autophagy.
The U.S. announces suspension of
talks on Syria with Russia.
Oct. 4: Three British-born
scientists, David Thouless, Duncan
Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz, are
awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in
Physics for revealing unusual states
of matter potentially helping work
on future quantum computers.
Hurricane Matthew pummels
Haiti leaving 877 dead.
Oct. 5: Jean-Pierre Sauvage of
France, Britains J. Fraser Stoddart
and Bernard Feringa of the
Netherlands are awarded the 2016
Nobel Prize for Chemistry for
developing molecular machines.
Oct. 6: Pakistans National
Assembly passes legislation against
honour killings.
Oct. 7: Colombian President
Juan Manuel Santos wins the 2016
Nobel Peace Prize.
The U.S. lifts economic sanctions
on Myanmar.
Oct. 8: At least 140 people are
killed and more than 525 wounded
in Saudi Arabia-led air strikes on a
funeral in Yemen capital Sanaa.
Oct. 9: At least 11 persons are
killed in the U.S. and two million
businesses and houses go without
power as cyclone Matthew,
unleashes torrential rains.
Oct. 10: The 2016 Nobel Prize for
Economics is jointly awarded to
Harvard and MIT economists Oliver
Hart and Bengt Holmstrom for their
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contributions to contract theory.
Oct. 13: American singer and
songwriter Bob Dylan is awarded
the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature.
The U.N. General Assembly
formally appoints former
Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio
Guterres as the new Secretary-
General.
The Maldives quits the
Commonwealth.
Oct. 16: Trinity Gay, a rising
track star and daughter of Olympic
track star Tyson Gay is killed after
being hit by a stray bullet during a
shootout in Lexington, Kentucky,
the U.S.
Oct. 24: At least 61 persons are
killed and 118 injured in a gun and
suicide bomb assault at the
Balochistan Police Training College
in Quetta by three masked gunmen.
Oct. 25: Paul Beattys The
Sellout , wins the Man Booker Prize,
in the process making him the first
U.S. writer to bag the award.
Oct. 26: Sharbat Gula, an Afghan
woman immortalised on a
celebrated National Geographic
magazine cover as a 12-year-old girl
is arrested for living in Pakistan on
fraudulent identity papers.
At least 232 people, including 190
former Iraqi troops are killed by the
IS militants in areas around Mosul
for refusing to obey orders.
Oct. 27: Chinese President Xi
Jinping is made core leader of
Communist Party of China.
Two Yazidi women, Nadia Murad
and Lamia Haji Bashar, who
survived rape and slavery at IS
hands are presented the European
Parliaments Sakharov human
rights prize in Strasbourg, France.
Oct 29: Deepavali is celebrated
for the first time at the United
Nations.
Mariano Rajoy is re-elected
Spanish Prime Minister after
winning a parliamentary vote.
Oct. 30: The European Union
and Canada sign the
Comprehensive Economic and
Trade agreement in Brussels.
Oct. 31: The fighting to gain
control of Aleppo, Syria leaves 72
Syrian rebels and 61 regime fighters
and allied militiamen dead.
NOVEMBER
Nov. 2: At least 239 migrants
believed to be from West Africa, are
killed in two shipwrecks off Libya.
Nov. 3: Brexit cannot be
triggered without Parliament
approval, rules the High Court.
Nov. 4:The Paris Agreement on
climate change enters into force.
Nov. 8: Voting begins in the U.S.
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump
to elect its 45th President.
Nov. 9: Republican Donald J.
Trump is elected the 45th President
of the U.S. The GOP retains
majority in Senate and House of
Representatives.
Kamala Harris becomes the first
Indian-American Senator after her
victory from California.
Pakistan deports Afghan Girl
Sharbat Gula and hands her over to
Afghanistan.
Nov. 11: India signs a historic
civilian nuclear deal with Japan
during the annual bilateral summit
in Tokyo and becomes the first
non-NPT nation to ink such a pact.
Nov. 12: At least 52 persons are
killed and more than 100 injured in
a suicide attack by a 14-year-old boy
at the Dargah Shah Noorani shrine
in Balochistan, Pakistan.
Colombias Government and
FARC rebels agree on a revised
peace deal.
Nov. 13: Two persons are killed
as a 7.8 magnitude earthquake
strikes New Zealand causing
widespread damage and triggering a
tsunami.
The $ 46 billion China-Pakistan
Economic Corridor linking Western
China to the Arabian Sea becomes a
reality with the inauguration of the
revamped Gwadar port by Prime
Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Nov. 15: Indian-American Ami
Bera is re-elected to the U.S. House
of Representatives for a third
consecutive term.
Nov. 16: The British House of
Lords gives nod for the final version
of the Investigatory Powers Bill
dubbed the Snoopers Charter.
Nov. 17: The Marrakech Action
proclamation is adopted by over
200 nations attending the 22nd
session of the Conference of the
Parties (COP22) in Morocco.
Nov. 22: A powerful 6.9
magnitude earthquake hits
northeast Japan triggering a
tsunami near Fukushima.
Nov. 23: Nikki Haley is named as
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
Thomas Mair, a far-right
extremist is found guilty of
murdering British MP Jo Cox by a
jury at Londons Central Criminal
Court.
Nov. 24: A suicide truck bomb
kills 100 people, at a petrol station
in the city of Hilla, 100 km south of
Iraqi capital Baghdad.
A landmark judgment by the
Court of Appeal in London
(delivered on October 25), deals a
severe blow to a deportation
programme affecting several
accused of falsifying proficiency
tests acquired to stay in the UK.
Nov. 28: At least 75 people
including all but three of the
members of the Brazilian football
team Chapecoense Real are killed
after a chartered plane hits a
mountainside in Cerro Gorda and
disintegrates near the town of La
Union outside Medellin in
Colombia.
DECEMBER
Dec. 1: Crown Prince Maha
Vajiralongkorn becomes the new
King of Thailand.
Dec. 4: Fidel Castro is buried
alongside national heroes in the
eastern city of Santiago de Cuba.
Former Greens leader Alexander
Van der Bellen wins Austrian
presidential polls.
Dec. 5: Italian voters decisively
reject constitutional changes
mooted by Prime Minister Matteo
Renzi.
The British Supreme Court
begins hearing on the Governments
appeal against a High Court ruling
on triggering Brexit.
New Zealand Prime Minister,
John Key announces resignation.
Dec. 6: French Interior Minister,
Bernard Cazeneuve is named the
new Prime Minister.
Dec. 7: At least 97 people are
killed after a 6.5-magnitude
earthquake strikes Pidie Jaya
district in Indonesias Aceh
Province.
Over 48 persons, are killed after a
Pakistan International Airlines
flight crashes and bursts into flames
near the village of Saddha Batolni in
Abbottabad district of Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa Province.
Time names U.S. President-elect
Donald Trump its Person of the
Year 2016.
Dec. 9: South Koreas Parliament
votes to impeach President Park
Geun-hye.
Dec. 10: Colombian President,
Juan Manuel Santos is presented
with the Nobel Peace Prize at a
function in Oslos City Hall.
THE HINDU
Literature Nobel winner Bob Dylan
skips the event in Stockholm.
At least 44 persons are killed and
166 wounded following coordinated
bomb attacks on police outside a
soccer stadium in Istanbul, Turkey.
Dec. 11: Italy's former Foreign
Minister Paolo Gentiloni is named
Prime Minister following the
resignation of reformist leader
Matteo Renzi in the wake of a
referendum defeat.
Venezuela demonetises 100-
bolivar bills.
Dec. 12: The EU and Cuba sign a
deal to normalise ties blocked for
decades, at a ceremony in Brussels.
Dec. 13: Texas tycoon and Exxon
Mobil Chief Executive Officer Rex
Tillerson is picked up for the post of
Secretary of State by the U.S.
President-elect Donald Trump.
Dec. 15: China seizes a
underwater drone in the South
China Sea, deployed by a U.S.
oceanographic vessel USNS
Bowditch .
Dec. 16: Italys top court orders
retrial of two top executives of
Finmeccanica in the
AgustaWestland bribery case.
London's iconic Big Ben closes
doors to visitors as it is to undergo a
29-million renovation set to take
three years.
Dec. 17: Thirteen Turkish
soldiers are killed and 48 wounded
in a suicide car bombing in the city
of Kayseri, Anatolia.
Dec. 18: Puerto Ricos Stephanie
del Valle is crowned Miss World
2016 at a pageant in Oxen Hill,
Maryland, the U.S.
Dec. 19: At least 12 persons are
killed as a truck ploughs into a
Christmas market at the foot of the
Kaiser Wilhelm memorial church in
Berlin, Germany.
Andrei Karlov, the Russian
Ambassador to Turkey is shot dead
by a policeman at a photo gallery in
Fans of Chapecoense Real soccer team mourn in front of the Arena
Conda stadium in Chapeco, Brazil.
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Ankara.
Americas electoral college
confirms Donald Trumps election
as the U.S. President.
A French court finds IMF head
Christine Lagarde guilty of
negligence over a 404 million
payout to a tycoon Bernard Tapie.
Dec. 20: China returns U.S.
drone.
Dec. 21: At least 31 persons are
killed in a series of six massive
explosions that destroyed a
fireworks market in Tultepec,
outside Mexico City.
Dec. 22: Fortyseven civilians are
killed in Turkish airstrikes on the
town of Al-Bab, an IS bastion. This
follows the killing of 14 soldiers a
day earlier by the rebels.
Dec. 23: A Tunisian, Anis Amri,
suspected to be the man behind the
Berlin Christmas market attack is
shot dead by the Italian police.
The U.N. Security Council passes
a resolution condemning Israel over
its settlement policy.
China tests the latest version of
its stealth fighter.
Dec. 24: A Sri Lankan court
acquits five persons charged with
the murder of a Tamil legislator
Nadaraja Raviraj on November 10,
2006.
Dec. 25: Ninetytwo persons,
including 64 Red Army Choir
members are killed after a Russian
plane bound for Syria crashes in the
Black Sea shortly after takeoff.
Dec. 27: The Japanese Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe, pays homage
at the USS Arizona Memorial in
Honolulu, Hawaii.
Dec. 28: Colombias Congress
passes a law granting amnesty to
FARC rebels.
Dec. 29: Russian President,
Vladimir Putin, announces a
nationwide ceasefire deal for Syria.
Dec. 31: The UNSC endorses
Syria ceasefire.

THE HINDU TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2017
OBITUARY
JANUARY
Jan.1: A.B. Bardhan (92), veteran
CPI leader, in New Delhi.
Jan. 4: Sarosh Homi Kapadia
(68), former CJI, in Mumbai.
Jan. 10: David Bowie (69),
English rock star, in Manhattan,
New York.
Jan. 13: Lt. Gen. J.F.R. Jacob
(92), a hero of the 1971 war with
Pakistan, at the Army Research and
Referral Hospital in New Delhi.
Jan. 14: Alan Sidney Patrick
Rickman (69), British actor , in
London of pancreatic cancer.
Jan. 21: Mrinalini Sarabhai (97),
veteran dancer, at her residence in
Usmanpura in Ahmedabad.
Jan. 25: Kalpana (51), noted
Malayalam and Tamil actor, in
Hyderabad.
Jan. 30: K.V. Krishna Rao (93),
former Army chief, at the Army
Research and Referral Hospital in
New Delhi Contonment.
FEBRUARY
Feb. 3: Balram Jakhar (92),
former Lok Sabha Speaker (1980-
89), in New Delhi.
Feb. 4: Edward Mitchell (85),
Apollo 14 astronaut , at a hospice in
West Palm Beach, Florida.
Feb. 6: Sudhir Tailang (55),
well-known cartoonist, at his home
in Mayur Vihar, New Delhi.
Feb. 8: Nida Fazli (78), eminent
Urdu poet and Bollywood lyricist, of
a heart attack, in Mumbai.
Feb. 9: Sushil Koirala (77),
former Nepal Prime Minister in
Kathmandu of respiratory failure.
Feb. 13: O.N.V. Kurup (84),
Malayalam poet, at a private
hospital in Thiruvananthapuram.
Feb. 16: Boutros Boutros-Ghali
(93), former UN Secretary-General,
in Cairo, Egypt.
Feb. 18: Ustad Abdul Rashid
Khan (107), eminent classical
vocalist , in Kolkata.
Feb. 19: Harper Lee (89), U.S.
novelist, in Monroeville, Alabama.
Umberto Eco (84), Italian scholar
of semiotics and author of The
Name of the Rose, of pancreatic
cancer at his house in Milan, Italy.
MARCH
March 3: Ashok Ghosh (94),
veteran AIFB leader, in Kolkata.
March 4: Purno Agitok Sangma
(68), former Lok Sabha Speaker, of a
heart attack in New Delhi.
March 5: Ray Tomlinson (74),
U.S. programmer who created email
and chose the @ symbol, in Lincoln,
Massachusetts.
Boutros
A.B. Bardhan Boutros-Ghali
March 8: George Martin (90),
legendary British music director, at
Wiltshire, the U.K.
March 21: Film News Anandan
(89), in Chennai after a brief illness.
Andrew Grove (79), who made
Intel into the worlds top
chipmaker, in Los Altos, California,
the U.S.
March 29: Patty Duke (69),
American actor, at a hospital in
Coeur DAlene, Idaho.
APRIL
April 21: Prince Rogers Nelson
(57), pop icon, at his Paisley Park
residence in Minnesota, the U.S.
April 27: V. T. Thomas (87),
Kerala cartoonist, better known as
Toms, at SM Medical Centre in
Kottayam.
April 28: Jenny Diski (68),
British novelist, , at her home in
Cambridge, England.
MAY
May 2: Balraj Madhok (96), one
of the founders of the Bharatiya
Jana Sangh, in New Delhi.
JUNE
June 2: Sir Thomas Bannerman
(83), British physicist , in London.
June 3: Muhammad Ali (74),
former heavyweight boxing
champion, at a hospital in Phoenix,
the U.S., of respiratory illness.
June 4: Sulabha Deshpande (79),
veteran theatre and film actor, at
her Mumbai residence after
prolonged illness.
June 5: Manohar Aich (104),
celebrated bodybuilder and former
Mr. Universe at his home in
Kolkata.
June 8: K. K. Katyal (88), veteran
journalist in a hospital in New
Delhi.
June 11: Inder Malhotra (86),
veteran journalist, at a Delhi
hospital.
Cho Ramaswamy Leonard Cohen
Balram Jakhar P.A. Sangma
Umberto Eco
June 24: Neil OBrien (82),
former MP and quiz pioneer, in
Kolkata.
June 26: Kavalam Narayana
Panicker (88), Malayalam
playwright, at his residence in
Thirukkanapuram,
Thiruvananthapuram.
June 27: Carlo Pedersoli (86),
Italian film actor better known as
Bud Spencer, in Italy.
June 28: Isak Chisi Swu (86),
founder of NSCN (I-M), of multiple
organ failure in New Delhi.
June 29: K. G. Subramanyan
(92), one of the pioneers of modern
Indian art, in Vadodara, Gujarat.
JULY
July 1: Ramachandra Chintaman
Dhere (86), Marathi litterateur , in
Pune.
Michael Cimino (77), American
producer who directed the Oscar-
winning Vietnam War film The Deer
Hunter , at his home in California.
July 4: Abbas Kiarostami (76),
Irans greatest filmmaker, in Paris.
July 8: Abdul Sattar Edhi (88),
renowned social worker, in Karachi.
July 19: Mubarak Begum (80),
legendary singer, in Mumbai.
July 23: Syed Haider Raza (94),
Indian painter , in Delhi.
July 28: Mahasweta Devi (90),
Bengali litterateur, social activist ,
at a private hospital in Kolkata.
AUGUST
Aug. 5: Vietnam Veedu
Sundaram (76), Tamil script writer
and director, in Chennai.
Aug. 8: T.K.V. Desikachar (78),
Yoga exponent, in Chennai.
Aug. 9: Panchu Arunachalam
(76), Tamil film producer and
lyricist, in Chennai.
Aug. 11: Hanif Mohammad (81),
Pakistan cricket legend, in Karachi.
Aug. 13: S. P. Sarguna Pandian
(75), DMK leader and former Tamil
M. Balamuralikrishna Mahasweta Devi Fidel Castro
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Bud Spencer
Nadu Social Welfare Minister, in
Chennai.
Aug. 14: Na. Muthukumar (41),
Tamil lyricist , in Chennai.
Aug. 22: S.R. Nathan (96),
former Singapore President at the
Singapore General Hospital.
Aug. 24: Akhlaq Ur Rahman
Kidwai (96), former Governor of
West Bengal and Bihar, in New
Delhi.
Aug. 29: Gene Wilder (83), U.S.
actor, at his home in Stamford in
Connecticut.
SEPTEMBER
Sept. 2: Islam Karimov (78),
Uzbek President for more than 25
years, in Tashkent.
Sept. 15: Captain Ayub Khan
(85), former Union Minister and
1965 war hero, at Jhunjhunu in
Rajasthan.
Sept. 16: Edward Albee (88), U.S.
playwright at his home in Montauk,
New York after a short illness.
Sept. 17: Charmian Carr (73),
who played Liesl von Trapp in The
Sound of Music , in California.
Sept. 28: Shimon Peres (93),
former Israeli President, at a
hospital in Tel Aviv.
OCTOBER
Oct. 4: Yusuf Arakkal (71),
painter, sculptor, in Bengaluru.
Oct. 13: Thailands King
Bhumibol Adulyadej (88), the
worlds longest-reigning monarch,
at a hospital in Bangkok.
Dario Fo (90), Nobel Prize-
winning Italian playwright, in
Milan.
Oct. 20: Junko Tabei (77),
Japanese alpinist and first woman
to scale Mt. Everest, in a hospital
near Tokyo.
NOVEMBER
Nov. 3: Pandit Amaradeva (88),
Sri Lankan singer and composer, at
Shimon Peres
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the Sri Jayawardanapura teaching
hospital.
Nov.7: Kanu Ramdas Gandhi
(87), grandson of Mahatma Gandhi ,
at a private hospital in Gujarat.
Leonard Norman Cohen (82),
Canadian singer-songwriter at his
home in Los Angeles.
Nov.17: Lt.Gen. S.K. Sinha (90),
former Governor of Assam and J&K
at a hospital in Delhi.
Nov.22: M. Balamuralikrishna
(86), Carnatic vocalist, composer, in
Chennai.
Ram Naresh Yadav (90), former
U.P. Chief Minister, in Lucknow.
M.G.K. Menon (88), former ISRO
chairman, in New Delhi.
Nov.25: Fidel Castro (90),
former Cuban President, in
Santiago de Cuba Province.
Dileep Padgaonkar (72), veteran
journalist, in Pune.
DECEMBER
Dec. 2: Ko.Si. Mani (87), former
Tamil Nadu Minister and DMK
veteran, in Kumbakonam.
Dec. 7: Cho S. Ramaswamy (82),
Tamil actor and Editor of Thuglak ,
in Chennai.
Dec. 8: John Glenn (95), U.S.
space legend, at the James Cancer
Hospital at Ohio State University in
Columbus.
Peter Jackson (90), British
scholar and tiger conservationist, in
London.
Dec. 10: V.C. Kulandaiswamy
(87), distinguished educationist, at
his residence in Chennai after a
brief illness.
Dec. 12: Edward Ricardo
Braithwaite (104), British-American
novelist, in Rockville, Maryland,
U.S.
Dec. 17: Henry Heimlich (96),
U.S. doctor and inventor of
Heimlich anti-choking manoeuvre,
at a hospital in Cincinnati, U.S.
Dec. 18: Zsa Zsa Gabor (99),
Hungarian actor, in Los Angeles.
Dec. 20: Jagannatha Verma (77),
veteran Malayalam actor, in
Thiruvananthapuram.
Dec. 25: George Michael, British
singer, at his home in Goring,
Oxfordshire, England.
Vera Rubin (88), U.S. astronomer,
in Princeton, New Jersey, the U.S.
Dec. 27: Carrie Fisher (60), Star
Wars actor, in Los Angeles.
Dec. 28: Sunderlal Patwa (92),
former Madhya Pradesh Chief
Minister, in Bhopal.
Debbie Reynolds (84), Hollywood
legend and mother of Carrie Fisher,
at Cedars-Sinai medical center, in
Los Angeles.
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APRIL Oct. 22 India beats Iran 38-29 to

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