Events in August 2008
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Aug. 1
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Thirtytwo persons are killed after a fire engulfs five coaches of the Secunderabad – Kakinada Gautami Express near the Kesamudram railway station in Warangal district, Andhra Pradesh. |
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Raghav Sharan Pandey takes over as the Union Petroleum Secretary. |
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The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M.Karunanidhi, inaugurates the Vellore Corporation. P. Karthikeyan takes office as the first Mayor. |
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Aug. 2
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Thirtyfive farm workers are killed after a truck falls off a culvert and plunges into a rivulet in Bihar’s Lakhisarai district. |
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Ashwani Kumar assumes office as CBI Director. |
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Aug. 3
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One hundred and fortysix people are killed and over 230 injured in a stampede near the hilltop Naina Devi temple in Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh. |
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Aug. 4
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The attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul an attack on the friendship between India and Afghanistan, says the Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh. Announces $450 million aid to the war-torn nation. |
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Two persons are killed and 40 injured in violence in Samba town, Jammu in the continuing protests against revocation of land to the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board. |
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Aug. 5
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Protestors remove a stretch of the railway track in Gagwal area of Samba district, Jammu severing the rail link of the State with the rest of the country. |
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A Special Tribunal lifts the ban on the Students Islamic Movement of India. |
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Tuticorin Corporation comes into being and R. Kasturi Thangam becomes the first Mayor. |
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Aug. 6
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The Supreme Court stays a tribunal order lifting the ban on SIMI. |
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One person is killed as the Army opens fire on protesters in Kathua. Strike throws life out of gear in the Kashmir valley. |
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Tension prevails in Nandigram area of West Bengal’s Purbo Medinipur district following the gunning down of a local CPI(M) leader. |
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Aug. 7
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The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M. Karunanidhi, drops Handlooms Minister N.K.K.P. Raja from the Cabinet following land grabbing charges. |
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One more person is shot dead in Nandigram following fresh violence. |
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Aug. 8
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The Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council Chairman, C. Rangarajan, resigns. |
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Bangladesh novelist Taslima Nasreen returns to India from Sweden. |
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Aug. 9
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The former External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh joins the BSP. |
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Incessant rain claims 30 lives in Andhra Pradesh. The twin cities bear the brunt. |
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Aug. 11
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Five persons, including senior Hurriyat leader, Sheikh Abdul Aziz are killed and 230 injured in firing by security forces at several places in the Kashmir Valley in a bid to stop a march to PoK capital Muzaffarabad. |
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Aug. 12
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Fifteen persons are killed in Jammu and Kashmir in firing by police and army personnel. |
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Aug. 13
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Hindu spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar arrives in Srinagar as the Centre’s emissary. |
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The former RBI Governor C. Rangarajan is nominated to the Rajya Sabha. |
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Aug. 14
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Kirti Chakra for all the four Indians killed in the Kabul Embassy suicide bombing. |
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The Government allows private provident funds to invest 15 per cent in stocks. |
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Aug. 15
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Politics of consensus not confrontation needed to tackle divisiveness, says the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in his address to the nation on the 62nd Independence Day. |
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Aug. 16
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SIMI jihadist Abu Bashar Qasmi, alleged mastermind behind the July 26 Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts is arrested from a village in Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh. |
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Aug. 17
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The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha withdraws support to the 23-month-old Madhu Koda–led coalition government in Jharkhand. |
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Aug. 18
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C. Rangarajan and S.M. Krishna are sworn in Rajya Sabha members. |
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The TRAI allows unrestricted Internet telephony services. |
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Aug. 19
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Habib Mian alias Rahim Khan (138), perhaps the oldest man in the country dies after a brief illness. |
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Aug. 20
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The nationwide general strike, total in West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura and partial in other states. |
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Aug. 21
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The Union Cabinet clears the policy guidelines for the commercial rollout of Internet Protocol TV services. |
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Sensex dips by over 430 points on heavy selling in interest – sensitive banking and realty stocks. |
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The Nation’s first poly-silicon solar project is launched in Kolkata. |
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Karimullah Khan Osan Khan, a key accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts is held in Nallasopara, a Mumbai suburb. |
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Aug. 23
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VHP leader Swami Lakshmanananda and four disciples are killed in an attack on his ashram at Jalespata in Orissa’s Kandhamal district. A nun is gangraped and a priest attacked in the district. |
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Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda resigns. |
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Aug. 25
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Two persons are burnt alive and churches attacked as the Orissa bandh in protest against the killing of Swami Lakshmanananda turns violent. |
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Shahbaz Hussain the main suspect in the May 13 Jaipur blasts is arrested in Lucknow. |
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Aug. 26
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Violence spreads in Orissa and the toll rises to 10. |
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Telugu matinee idol Chiranjeevi launches ‘Praja Rajyam’ at the temple town of Tirupati. |
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The Army joins the rescue operations as the flood situation worsens in Bihar. affecting two million people. |
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Aug. 27
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Shibu Soren is sworn in as Jharkhand Chief Minister. |
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Militants kill four persons and take seven persons hostage in a house at Chinore on the Jammu city outskirts. |
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Shoot-at-sight orders in eight curfew- bound towns of Orissa’s Kandhanral district. |
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The country’s first frozen egg baby is born in a Chennai hospital. |
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Aug. 28
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The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announces a Rs.1,010 crore flood relief package for Bihar. |
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Security forces rescue seven hostages after a 19-hour gun battle with militants in Chinore on the outskirts of Jammu. |
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Tata Motors suspends work at Singur. |
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Aug. 29
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The National Stock Exchange kicks off exchange-traded currency futures for the first time in the country. |
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Aug. 30
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Breakthrough in Jammu shrine land crisis. |
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India and the U.S. reach agreement on amended NSG draft waiver. |
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Aug. 31
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The two-month long agitation in Jammu over the Amarnath Shrine land issue ends following an agreement between the government and the Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangarsh Samiti. |
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