Events in February 2008
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Feb. 1
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The Interpol issues red corner notice against the prime accused in the kidney transplant racket, Amit Kumar and his brother Jeevan Kumar. |
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The Centre orders the culling of one million poultry birds within a five km radius in four states adjoining the bird flu-hit districts of West Bengal. So far 27.6 lakh birds culled in West Bengal. |
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Feb. 4
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Sensex surges by over 417 points to close at 18660.32 buoyed up by the rallying of the Asian markets. |
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Feb. 5
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Three persons involved in the hijack of an Indian Airlines aircraft to Kandahar in Afghanistan on December 24, 1999 are convicted and sentenced to life by a Patiala Court. |
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The West Bengal Government imposes an indefinite ban on the sale and movement of poultry across the state. Around 36 lakh poultry birds culled in the final count. |
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Feb. 6
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Sensex registers a steep fall of 523.67 points to close at 18139.49. |
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Feb. 7
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The Centre declares 14 river projects estimated at Rs. 53,200 crore, national assets. |
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Sensex nosedives by 612.56 points to close at 17526.93 following a bearish tendency in the stock markets. |
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Feb. 9
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Amit Kumar, the alleged kingpin of the multi-crore kidney transplant racket is brought to New Delhi by a CBI team following deportation from Nepal. |
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The West Bengal Government announces a Rs. 700 crore package for helping the bird flu-hit families. In all 38 lakh chickens are culled in the 15 affected districts. Over 1.5 lakh birds succumb to avian flu. |
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Six Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists who were involved in the attacks on the CRPF Group Centre in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh on January 1 and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore on December 29, 2005 are arrested by the U.P. Police. |
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Feb. 11
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The stock markets plummet with the Sensex dropping by over 833.98 points to close at a nearly five-month low of 16630.91. Reliance power shares drop on debut. |
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Saraj Kovid, a key link in the kidney racket surrenders before a Gurgaon court. |
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Feb. 12
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India and Russia conclude talks for building additional nuclear reactors and double bilateral trade in three years after a meeting between Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Viktor Zubkov in New Delhi. Moscow lifts ban on farm products import. |
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The West Bengal Government lifts the ban on sale and transport of poultry imposed on February 5. |
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The Centre rushes additional paramilitary forces to Maharashtra as the violent campaign by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena against North Indians spreads to new areas. |
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Feb. 13
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The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray and Samajwadi Party leader Abu Asim Azmi are arrested and let out on bail 10 days after trouble erupted all over Maharashtra following remarks on the “North Indians issue”. A HAL staff is killed in stone-pelting in Nasik. |
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The former External Affairs Minister, K. Natwar Singh, quits the Congress party. |
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Feb. 14
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The Union Cabinet approves implementation of the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission on re-defining Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies. |
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Feb. 15
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Fifteen persons, including 13 policemen are killed in naxalite raids on police stations and arms depots in Orissa’s Nayagarh district. Over 1,100 arms and one lakh live bullets looted. |
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The Centre appoints National Securities Depository Limited Chairman C.B. Bhave as the new SEBI Chairman. |
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A jumbo-sized budget envisaging an expenditure of over Rs. 1 lakh crore in 2008-09 is presented by the Andhra Pradesh Finance Minister, K. Rosaiah. |
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Rajeev Chandrasekhar takes over as FICCI President and Rajan Bharti Mittal elected Vice-President. |
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Feb. 17
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Twenty naxalites are killed in police action at Gasama in Orissa. Three policemen also die in action. |
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Jeevan Kumar, brother of the kidney racket kingpin Amit Kumar, is arrested by the CBI in New Delhi. |
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The Tata Group signs on MoU with the Israel Aerospace Industries for manufacturing a wide range of defence products at the Defexpo in New Delhi. |
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Appu Ghar throws open gates to Delhiites one last time. |
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Feb. 18
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Six CRPF jawans and 11 Maoists are killed in gun battles at two places in the Bastar forests of Chhattisgarh. |
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The Supreme Court, rejects petitions challenging the Tamil Nadu Learning Act 2006 making Tamil a compulsory subject from Standard I to X in all schools in the State. |
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C.B. Bhave takes charge as the Securities and Exchange Board of India Chairman. |
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A British teenager Scarlette Eden Keeling is found dead in Goa’s Anjuna beach. |
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Feb. 19
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President Pratibha Patil signs notification for implementing the Delimitation Commission recommendations. |
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Feb. 20
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India’s indigenously developed pilotless target aircraft ‘Lakshya’ is successfully flight-tested from Chandipur, Orissa. |
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Noted Bengali poet and novelist Sunil Gangopadhyay is elected Sahitya Akademi president and Punjabi poet S.S. Noor vice-president. |
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Feb. 21
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The former External Affairs Minister, K. Natwar Singh, resigns from the Rajya Sabha as also the Congress. |
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Mohammad Yahya Kammakutly alias Yahya Khan, a top functionary of the students Islamic Movement of Ina is arrested at his house in Gurappanapalya by the Bangalore police. |
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Feb. 23
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Over 80 per cent of 20.35 lakh voters cast their ballots in the Tripura Assembly polls. |
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Police seize 6,000 kg explosives from a truck in Bihar’s Nawada district and arrest seven persons. |
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Somen (Himadri Sen Roy), a top Maoist leader is arrested at a railway station in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganag district. |
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Feb. 26
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The Railway Minster Lalu Prasad Yadav announces 53 new trains, including 10 ‘Garib Raths’ presenting his fifth consecutive Railway Budget. Leaves freight untouched and slashes fares. The annual plan is set at a record Rs. 37,500 crore. |
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India joins a select club in underwater missile capability by successfully test firing Sagarika, a tactical, submarine-to-surface missile, from a pontoon off the coast of Visakhapatnam. |
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Feb. 28
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Rizwanur Rahman, the computer graphics teacher whose body was found by the side of railway tracks near Kolkata committed suicide concludes the CBI. |
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Feb. 29
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The Union Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram, announces a Rs. 60,000 crore farm loans waiver presenting the Union Budget for 2008-09. Hikes income tax exemption limit to Rs.1.5 lakh and proposes withdrawal of the Banking Cash Transaction Tax with effect from April 1, 2009. |
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