Events in May 2008
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May 1
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The Government grants ‘Navartna’ status to the Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. |
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Mr. K. V. Kamath, CMD, ICICI Bank, takes over as the new CII president. |
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May 2
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The Union Cabinet gives nod for major amendments in the Code of Criminal Procedure. |
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May 3
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The first Lok Adalat of Supreme Court settles 25 cases in one day. |
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A devastating fire destroys Asia’s largest chilli market yard in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh causing a loss of Rs. 80 crore. |
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G. K. Chadha, is appointed CEO of the SAARC University. |
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May 5
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The prime accused in the murder of Biranchi Das, former coach of child marathoner Budhia is arrested in Panaji, Goa. |
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External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and melody queen Asha Bhosle are presented with Padma Vibhushan awards. Dominique Lapierre, ICCI Bank CMD K. V. Kamath receive Padma Bhushan awards. |
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May 6
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The Government introduces the Women’s Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha. |
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May 7
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India successfully test fires Agni-III ballistic missile, capable of striking targets 3,500 km away, from the Wheeler Island, off the Orissa coast. |
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The Puducherry Assembly adopts a resolution seeking “full Statehood status.” |
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May 8
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The Supreme Court strikes down the All India Institute of Medical Education and Research (Amendment) Act and restores P. Venugopal as AIIMS Director. |
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The Supreme Court asks the Centre to study the possibility of an alternative alignment for the Sethusamudram project. |
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Dr. Sabeel Ahmed jailed in Britain for withholding details on the failed attempt on the Glasgow airport last June, arrives in Bangalore after being deported by the U.K. |
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The rupee plunges to its more than one-year low of 41.76/77 against the dollar. |
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May 10
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The first phase of polling for 89 of the 224 seats in the Karnataka Assembly elections is held peacefully. |
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Ratan Tata, L. N. Mittal, Dr. R. K. Pachauri among Padma Vibhushan award recipients. Lord Meghnad Desai, P. Susheela receive Padma Bhushan awards. |
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May 11
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The ONGC launches the country’s first helium extraction pilot plant in Kuthalam, Nagapattinam district, Tamil Nadu. |
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Justice Ajit Prakash Shah is sworn in Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court. |
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May 13
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At least 64 people are killed and 150 injured as serial blasts rock Jaipur, Rajasthan. |
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May 14
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The Tamil Nadu Government introduces in the Assembly the Police Bill, repealing the 1861 Police Act and four other laws. |
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Eighty-nine people are killed in the high-velocity thunderstorm that rips across Uttar Pradesh. |
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May 15
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Militants gun down 11 persons in two attacks in Assam’s North Cachar Hills district. |
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May 16
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Sixty per cent polling is recorded in the second phase of Karnataka Assembly elections. |
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May 19
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The toll in the illicit liquor tragedy in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka goes up to 68. |
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Justice A. K. Ganguly is sworn in the new Chief Justice of Madras High Court. |
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May 20
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The resignation of Tamil Nadu Social Welfare Minister, Poongothai Aladi Aruna following a row over her telephonic talk with the DVAC director is accepted. |
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May 21
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The death toll in the hooch tragedy in Karnataka touches 123 and in Tamil Nadu it reaches 53 with the death of 16 more persons in Hosur taluk. |
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May 22
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The Centre announces a relief package worth more than Rs. 330 crore for the victims of the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat. |
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A turnout of 61.3 per cent is recorded in the third and final phase of Karnataka Assembly elections. |
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May 23
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The Government increases its loan waiver package by nearly 20 per cent to Rs. 71,680 crore to provide relief to ‘big’ farmers. |
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At least 17 persons are killed in police-people clashes after a rail roko protest by the Gujjars in Bayana tehsil of Rajasthan’s Bharatpur district turns violent. |
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Surface-to-surface ballistic missile Prithvi II is successfully test-fired from the Integrated Test Range, in Chandipur, Orissa. |
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Rajesh Talwar, dentist is arrested for the murder of his daughter Arushi Talwar and her domestic help Hemraj in Noida on May 15. |
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May 24
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Eighteen persons are killed in police firing at Sikandra in Dausa district, Rajasthan as Gujjars continue stir demanding Scheduled Tribes status. |
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May 25
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The BJP emerges as the largest party in the 224-member Karnataka Assembly bagging 110 seats. |
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The Congress gets a drubbing in the Lok Sabha byelections. In Tura, Meghalaya, Agatha K. Sangma wins by a huge margin of 99,885 votes. |
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May 26
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The first consignment of enriched uranium fuel from Russia for the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project in Tamil Nadu arrives in Thiruvananthapuram. |
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May 28
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Vikas Yadav and his cousin Vishal Yadav are found guilty in the six-year-old high profile Nitish Katara murder case. |
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May 29
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The Government to set up an empowered commission to rehabilitate the Bhopal gas tragedy victims. |
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May 30
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Two persons are killed, one in police firing in Kushalipura in Sawai Madhopur even as sporadic violence mars the Gujjar agitation in Delhi and Haryana. Rail traffic hit in the Capital. |
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Vikas Yadav and his cousin, Vishal are sentenced to lifer in the Nitish Katara murder case. |
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B. S. Yeddyurappa is sworn in the 19th Chief Minister of Karnataka. |
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May 31
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The IAF reopens the Daulatbeg Oldi airbase in the Ladakh region after 43 years. |
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