Events in March 2008
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Mar. 3
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Sensex loses over 900 points, the second biggest fall in the history of Bombay Stock Exchange, following the turmoil in the global market. |
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Seventy five per cent polling is recorded in Meghalaya Assembly elections. |
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Four members of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi resign from the Lok Sabha in protest against the delay in the creation of a Telangana state. |
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The Centre launches ‘Dhan Laxmi’, a conditional cash transfer scheme for the girl child. |
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Mar. 4
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Kashmir Singh crosses the border at Wagah in Amritsar after being freed by Pakistan where he spent 35 years in jail, following his arrest in Rawalpindi in 1973. and sentence to death by a military court on charges of espionage. |
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Sensex loses 338 points stretching the downward trend for the fourth day in a row. |
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Mar. 5
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Eightyfive per cent turnout is recorded in Nagaland Assembly elections. |
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Maharashtra Governor S.M. Krishna resigns. |
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The Gorkha National Liberation Front revives demand for a separate Gorkhaland state. |
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Mar. 6
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A Jharkhand Court acquits JMM leader Shibu Soren in a 33-year-old massacre case. |
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The Kerala Finance Minister, T.M. Thomas Isaac presents a deficit budget for the year 2008-09. |
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Mar. 7
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The ruling CPI(M)-led Left Front sweeps Tripura polls and retains power for the fourth consecutive term with a landslide victory bagging 49 of the 60 Assembly seats. |
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Kashmir Singh admits to acting as a spy for the Indian Military Intelligence in Pakistan. |
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Sensex loses 566.56 points and closes below the 16000-mark as U.S. recession, rising oil prices trigger selling. |
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Mar. 8
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Arms dealer Suresh Nanda accused of getting kickbacks in the purchase of Israeli Barak missiles in 2000 and his son Sanjeev Nanda are arrested in a Mumbai hotel. |
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Mar. 9
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A fresh outbreak of bird flu is reported from West Bengal’s Murshidabad district. |
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Mar. 10
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D.D. Lapang is sworn in Meghalaya Chief Minister heading a minority Congress-led Meghalaya United Alliance Government. |
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The former Lok Sabha Speaker P.A. Sangma resigns from Lok Sabha in protest against the Governor’s decision to invite Lapang to form Ministry. |
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Manik Sarkar is sworn in Tripura Chief Minister for a third consecutive term at a function in Agartala. |
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The Narendra Modi Government withdraws the Gujarat Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Bill passed in 2006 permitting conversions from one denomination to another in the same religion. |
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Subhas Ghising resigns as administrator of the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council after a two decade stint since its inception in August 1988. |
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Mar. 12
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Sensex reverses downward trend and closes at 16,123.15, a gain of nearly 200 points. |
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The Airports Authority Employees’Union begins “non-cooperation movement” and the Delhi Government invokes the Essential Services Maintenance Act. |
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A 12-member Democratic Alliance of Nagaland Ministry led by Neiphiu Rio is sworn in in the capital Kohima, following revocation of President’s rule. |
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Puducherry Lt.Governor Mukut Mithi resigns. |
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Mar. 13
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Airport staff calls off strike protesting against closure of the Hyderabad and Bangalore airports. |
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Placido Carvalho an alleged drug peddler and Samson D’Souza, a barman are arrested for the homicidal death of British teenager Scarlette Eden Keeling. |
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Sensex falls sharply by 770.63 points or 4.78 per cent to 15,357.35 as the contagion effect of the U.S. recession continues. |
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Mar. 14
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The Madras High Court upholds a trial court order convicting and sentencing nine persons to five years RI in the 1998 Sarika Shah eve-teasing case. |
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Mar. 15
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“India itself is vulnerable to effects of climate change and can be a part of the solution,” says the former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore at a function to mark the launch of the India chapter of ‘The Climate Project.’ |
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Lieutenant Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands Bhopinder Singh assumes additional charge as Puducherry Lt.Governor. |
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Mar. 16
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The All-India Muslim Women Personal Law Board comes out with a new “Shariat Nikahnama” which makes marriage registration compulsory. |
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Mar. 17
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Sensex loses 951.03 points, its second biggest single-day fall, accelerated by the plunge of the dollar against all major currencies. |
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Mar. 18
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Suspended IPS officer R.K.Sharma is held guilty for the January 23, 1999 murder of Indian Express Principal Correspondent Shivani Bhatnagar in her East Delhi house. |
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Mar. 19
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Meghalaya Progressive Alliance leader Donkupar Roy is sworn in Chief Minister of Meghalaya after D.D.Lapang resigns ahead of the floor test, after being at the helm for just nine days. |
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A joint Army and Air Force military exercise code-named ‘Brazen Chariots’ gets underway in Pokhran ranges in Rajasthan Thar desert. |
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Mar. 20
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The Tamil Nadu Finance Minister, K.Anbazhagan, presents a revenue surplus budget for 2008-09. Announces a Rs.2,300-crore transportation corridor for Chennai. New district with Tirupur as headquarters to be carved out of Coimbatore and Erode districts. |
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The Rajasthan Assembly passes the contentious Religious Freedom Bill. |
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The Union Cabinet gives its nod for launching a Central Scheme to assist civilian victims of violence. |
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Mar. 23
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Nuclear-capable surface-to-surface missile Agni-I is successfully test-fired from the Wheeler Island, off Damra island on the Orissa coast. |
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Mar. 24
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The suspended IPS officer R.K. Sharma is sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case by a Delhi court. |
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The Sixth Pay Commission headed by Justice B.N. Sri Krishna recommends an average 40 per cent increase in the salary of over 40-lakh Central Government employees. |
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Mar. 25
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The Supreme Court tasks a five-member special investigation team to probe afresh 14 post-Godhra communal riots cases in Gujarat. |
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Two-time Haryana Chief Minister Bhajan Lal is disqualified from the Assembly under the anti-defection law. |
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Sensex gains 928.09 points and breaches the 16000-mark again. |
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Mar. 26
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Police in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, arrest 10 leaders of the Students Islamic Movement of India, including general secretary Safdar Nagori wanted by police in six States. |
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Mar. 27
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The government decides to set up a Farmers’ Debt Relief Fund with an initial corpus of Rs.10,000 crore. |
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A.B. Bardhan (82) is re-elected CPI general secretary for the fourth consecutive term at the party’s 20th national congress in Hyderabad. |
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Mar. 28
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India’s first Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation Research is inaugurated at Anna University in Chennai. |
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Mar. 31
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The Orissa Assembly Speaker Maheswar Mohanty resigns following sexual harassment charges. Information and Public Relations Minister Debasis Nayak is dropped for his alleged role in the row. |
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Sensex loses 726.85 points and closes at 15,644.44. |
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