Events in October 2008
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Oct. 1
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At least 70 people are injured as four blasts rock Tripura capital Agartala. |
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Bombay Stock Exchange launches the currency derivatives segment in Mumbai. |
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Oct. 2
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The nationwide ban on smoking in public places comes into force. |
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Oct. 3
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Tata Motors announces decision to shift the Nano car project out of Singur in West Bengal’s Hooghly district. |
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Oct. 4
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A former Gujarat Minister Mohammad Surti and five others are sentenced to 20-year imprisonment for their role in the April 1993 blast in Surat in which a school girl was killed. |
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Oct. 5
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The toll in violence over three days between Bodos and immigrant Muslim settlers in Assam’s Udalgiri and Darrang districts goes up to 32. |
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Oct. 6
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Three persons are arrested in Orissa’s Kandhamal district for their role in the killing of VHP leader Swami Lakshmanananda. |
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Sensex plunges 725 points to 11801.70 falling below the 12000 level for the first time in two years. |
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Oct. 7
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The Tata Group’s Rs. 2000 crore Nano car project moves to Sanand in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad district. |
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The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announces a $20 million grant in budgetary support to the Palestinian National Authority. |
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Thirteen more persons die in Assam’s Darrang and Udalguri districts taking the toll in clashes between the Bodos and immigrant Muslim settlers to 53. |
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Oct. 8
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The Union Cabinet gives nod for a newer version of the Judges (Inquiry) Amendment Bill 2008, providing for setting up a National Judicial Council. |
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Oct. 9
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A 19-member business delegation from Pakistan-administered Kashmir arrives in Uri to discuss modalities of trans-LoC trade. |
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Oct. 10
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The stock markets tumble dovetailing the falling gloomy global markets. Sensex crashes 800 points on panic selling. |
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Oct. 11
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The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh flags off the first ever train in the Kashmir valley at the Nowgam station on the outskirts of Srinagar. |
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Oct. 12
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Six members of a family are burnt alive at Vatoli village near Bhainsa town in Adilabad district, Andhra Pradesh. |
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Oct. 13
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Sensex regains the 11000-level. |
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Oct. 14
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The Election Commission announces poll schedules for MP, Delhi, Rajasthan, Mizoram and Chhattisgarh to be held between November 14 and December 4. |
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Oct. 15
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Sensex closes below the 10000-level for the first time in two years. |
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Oct. 19
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The Election Commission announces a seven-phase poll schedule for Jammu and Kashmir beginning November 17 and ending on December 24. |
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Maharashtra Navnirman Sena activists beat up North Indian aspirants appearing for the Railway Recruitment Board entrance exams for the Western region in Mumbai. |
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Two persons are killed, many injured as a 34-metre stretch of an under construction bridge of the Delhi metro railway collapses at Laxmi Nagar in New Delhi. |
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Oct. 20
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Sensex regains the 10000 mark on buying support in IT and banking stocks. |
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Oct. 21
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The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena president Raj Thackeray is arrested in Ratnagiri, Mumbai triggering violent protests by his supporters. |
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Seventeen persons are killed in a bomb blast in Imphal West district, Manipur. |
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The much-awaited cross-LoC trade the first since 1947 begins with the flagging off of 13 trucks carrying goods on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road. |
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The Dahod Lok Sabha MP Babubhai K. Katara is expelled from the Lok Sabha for his role in the human trafficking case. |
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Oct. 22
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India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C11) puts Chandrayaan-1, the nation’s first spacecraft to the Moon, in its initial orbit after liftoff from the Sriharikota space centre. |
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The MNS leader Raj Thackeray is freed on interim bail after spending a night at the Manpada police station in Kalyan, Thane district. |
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Students in Bihar torch a train to protest the attack on examinees. |
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Sensex plunges 513 points. |
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Oct. 23
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The Tamil Nadu police arrest the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam general secretary Vaiko on charges of sedition for a speech on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue in Chennai on October 21. |
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Sensex tumbles by 398.20 points to 9771.70, a level last seen on June 20, 2006. |
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The Lok Sabha passes two bills to declare water stretches in five states, including Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, as national waterways. |
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Oct. 24
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Sensex hits 8701 points in a three-year low on “Black Friday” |
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A human chain is formed in Chennai to express solidarity with the Sri Lankan Tamils hit by the army operation against the LTTE. |
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Oct. 26
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India and Sri Lanka sign an agreement on fishing arrangements that will help put an end to firing on Tamil Nadu fishermen for inadvertently crossing the maritime boundary line. |
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Oct. 27
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Rahul Raj Kundan Prasad Singh from Patna is shot dead by the Mumbai police after he tries to take control of a bus and shoots a commuter. |
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The Gurta Gaddi tercentenary celebrations get underway at the historic Takhat Sachkhand Shri Hazur Abchalnagar Sahib Gurdwara in Maharashtra’s Nanded town. |
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Oct. 28
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Dharamdeo Rai (25), a worker from Uttar Pradesh is lynched on board a suburban train near Khopoli in Maharashtra. |
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Oct. 29
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Chandrayaan snaps pictures of the Earth. |
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Oct. 30
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At least 62 persons are killed and over 300 injured in 12 high intensity serial blasts in the Assam capital Guwahati and Kokrajhar, Barpeta Road and Bongaigaon towns. |
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Oct. 31
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The Assam blasts toll touches 75. |
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The centre grants classical language status to Telugu, Kannada. |
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