Feb 1: Harish Rawat, a Union Minister, is sworn in as the new Chief Minister of Uttarakhand.
Feb 1: A last-minute withdrawal of consent by the Goa government for holding an international music festival has sparked a diplomatic row, with the Russian Embassy terming the decision as an ""insolent and starkly unfriendly gesture"" of the state authorities.
Feb 2: An amphibious vessel is damaged when it ran aground off the coast of Visakhapatnam.
Feb 2: Two Manipuri women are allegedly molested and beaten up by some men who hurled racist abuses at them in South Delhi.
Feb 3: Following up on its agreement with CPI, the AIADMK works out an alliance with CPI(M) to fight the Lok Sabha polls in Tamil Nadu as efforts to cobble a non-BJP, non-Congress front gained momentum.
Feb 3: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announces projects including a National Mission on High Performance Computing and a Neutrino-based Observatory in Tamil Nadu with an outlay of about Rs 9,000 crore.
Feb 4: Iconic cricketer Sachin Tendulkar (42nd ) and eminent scientist Prof C N R Rao (43th) are conferred with the country's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna.
Feb 5: Narendra Modi attacks Third Front grouping saying such an alliance would make India a ""third rate"" country and people should banish them from politics forever.
Feb 5: Expelled AAP MLA Vinod Kumar Binny announces withdrawing support to the Delhi Government and accused Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of being ""more dangerous"" than a corrupt person who is telling ""lies"" and ""deceiving"" people.
Feb 7: Cross-voting by Left and Congress MLAs help Trinamool Congress gain an extra seat in West Bengal while a similar action by Congress MLAs in Andhra Pradesh saw TRS making its debut in Rajya Sabha as high drama marked the polls to the upper House in the two states.
Feb 7: Union Cabinet clears the Telangana Bill which is set to be introduced in Parliament.
Feb 8: A 14-year-old girl from Manipur is allegedly raped by her landlord's son in Munirka area sparking off protests in the national capital.
Feb 9: A recommendation to President Pranab Mukherjee by the Union Home Ministry for introduction of the Telangana Bill in Parliament--likely on Tuesday--is sent through the Prime Minister's Office.
Feb 10: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal rejects Lt Governor Najeeb Jung's call to revisit his decision to hold a special session of Delhi assembly for the passage of Jan Lokpal Bill.
Feb 10: Government decides to give two additional attempts to civil services aspirants, with consequential age relaxation to all categories of candidates of the exam conducted by Union Public Service Commission.
Feb 10: India and China hold a meet between their Special Representatives on the contentious boundary issue that was preceded by talks under the working mechanism on border affairs in which additional confidence building measures and steps for maintaining peace and tranquility are discussed.
Feb 11: China says border talks with India have yielded ""initial results"", enabling the two neighbours to properly handle their differences over the vexed boundary issue and maintain peace along the frontier.
Feb 11: Congress expels six Lok Sabha MPs from the Seemandhra region who had given notices of no-confidence motion against the government over their opposition to the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.
Feb 11: Independent MLA Rambir Shokeen formally withdraws support to Arvind Kejriwal led Delhi government, bringing down the strength to 35 in the 70-member house.
Feb 11: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal orders filing of an FIR against Petroleum Minister M Veerappa Moily, former minister Murli Deora and RIL chief Mukesh Ambani for alleged collusion in the hike in prices of natural gas from KG basin.
Feb 12: Food Minister K V Thomas calls Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar a backstabber for raising a banner of ""revolt"" against Congress President Sonia Gandhi in 1999 on the issue of her foreign origin.
Feb 12: Passenger fares and freight rates are left untouched in the interim rail budget, which talks about plans about involvement of private sector and FDI as part of efforts to modernise the largest transport network in the country.
Feb 13: Unprecedented pandemonium marked by fisticuffs, pepper spraying and breaking of mike is witnessed in Lok Sabha as the government introduced the controversial Telangana bill.
Feb 13: Delhi Assembly witnesses unprecedented chaotic scenes on the first day of a special session as BJP and Congress MLAs joined hands in disrupting proceedings by throwing files, destroying mikes, flagging banners and trooping to the well demanding Law Minister Somnath Bharti's resignation over the midnight raid episode.
Feb 13: Balu Mahendra ( from chennai,Tamilnadu ), who won him several national awards for films like 'Moondram Pirai'(Sadma),'Veedu' and 'Olangal', dies at a private hospital due to cardiac arrest following prolonged illness.
Feb 14: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal resigns after suffering a defeat in the assembly on the Jan Lokpal Bill
Feb 16: Sirsa (Haryana): A 45-year-old man allegedly hurls a shoe at Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda during a public meeting in Dabwali town.
Feb 16: Senior IPS officer Rakesh Maria, who was heading the Maharashtra ATS, takes charge as Mumbai Police Commissioner.
Feb 16: Thirteen people are killed and 34 injured, some of them seriously, when a mini-bus in which they were travelling plunges into a gorge in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Feb 17: YSRCP chief Jaganmohan Reddy stages a protest and courted arrest, while accusing the Congress of engineering the pepper spray episode in Parliament.
Feb 18: Lok Sabha TV went blank for the entire 90 minutes when the controversial bill to carve out Telangana as the 29th state, by splitting Andhra Pradesh Telangana Bill was being passed in the House.
Feb 22: A group of NCP activists barge into the Aam Aadmi Party office in suburban Andheri, tear and burn posters of Arvind Kejriwal and also burn his effigy.
Feb 22: Election Commission has put in place an expenditure monitoring mechanism for curbing misuse of money power during general elections.
Feb 24: High drama unfolded in the RJD with 13 of the 22 party MLAs in Bihar announcing they have quit the party in a jolt to Lalu Prasad but six of them later claim they are not part of the breakaway faction.
Feb 24: India and China agree on a slew of measures, including holding of joint Army exercise this year and strengthening maritime security cooperation while maintaining peace and tranquility on the dispute border.
Feb 24: India and Canada hold talks on a range of bilateral and international issues and decide to expand ties in diverse sectors including health, audio-visual co-production and skill development.
Feb 25: 11 Left and secular parties come together claiming to be the alternative and vow to defeat both Congress and BJP.
Feb 26: India and Russia hold wide-ranging talks on nuclear, space, energy and economic cooperation and agreed to finalise the long-pending deal for the third and fourth reactors of Kudankulam power plant soon.
Feb 26: India and Saudi Arabia ink a defence cooperation pact to take their strategic partnership further in areas of security.
Feb 26: In an unprecedented step, Navy chief Admiral Devender Kumar Joshi resigned on Wednesday, owning "moral responsibility" for warship and submarine accidents over the last six months, including the latest mishap on board submarine INS Sindhuratna off Mumbai..
Feb 27: BJP and LJP stitch a pre-poll alliance with the Ram Vilas Paswan-led party returning to the NDA fold, 12 years after it quit over Gujarat riots.
Feb 27: India and Israel sign three agreements to strengthen the efforts in the war against terror and beef up bilateral security relations.
Feb 28: The Cabinet gives mandate to the 7th Pay Commission for revising salaries of over 50 lakh central government employees and remuneration of 30 lakh pensioners.
Feb 28: The Centre raises dearness allowance to 100 per cent, from 90 per cent, benefiting its 50 lakh employees and 30 lakh pensioners.
Feb 28: A week after Kiran Kumar Reddy resigned as Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, the Centre decides to impose President's Rule in the state while announcing a few sops for the Seemandhra region which has been opposing creation of Telangana state.
Feb 1: A last-minute withdrawal of consent by the Goa government for holding an international music festival has sparked a diplomatic row, with the Russian Embassy terming the decision as an ""insolent and starkly unfriendly gesture"" of the state authorities.
Feb 2: An amphibious vessel is damaged when it ran aground off the coast of Visakhapatnam.
Feb 2: Two Manipuri women are allegedly molested and beaten up by some men who hurled racist abuses at them in South Delhi.
Feb 3: Following up on its agreement with CPI, the AIADMK works out an alliance with CPI(M) to fight the Lok Sabha polls in Tamil Nadu as efforts to cobble a non-BJP, non-Congress front gained momentum.
Feb 3: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announces projects including a National Mission on High Performance Computing and a Neutrino-based Observatory in Tamil Nadu with an outlay of about Rs 9,000 crore.
Feb 4: Iconic cricketer Sachin Tendulkar (42nd ) and eminent scientist Prof C N R Rao (43th) are conferred with the country's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna.
Feb 5: Narendra Modi attacks Third Front grouping saying such an alliance would make India a ""third rate"" country and people should banish them from politics forever.
Feb 5: Expelled AAP MLA Vinod Kumar Binny announces withdrawing support to the Delhi Government and accused Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of being ""more dangerous"" than a corrupt person who is telling ""lies"" and ""deceiving"" people.
Feb 7: Cross-voting by Left and Congress MLAs help Trinamool Congress gain an extra seat in West Bengal while a similar action by Congress MLAs in Andhra Pradesh saw TRS making its debut in Rajya Sabha as high drama marked the polls to the upper House in the two states.
Feb 7: Union Cabinet clears the Telangana Bill which is set to be introduced in Parliament.
Feb 8: A 14-year-old girl from Manipur is allegedly raped by her landlord's son in Munirka area sparking off protests in the national capital.
Feb 9: A recommendation to President Pranab Mukherjee by the Union Home Ministry for introduction of the Telangana Bill in Parliament--likely on Tuesday--is sent through the Prime Minister's Office.
Feb 10: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal rejects Lt Governor Najeeb Jung's call to revisit his decision to hold a special session of Delhi assembly for the passage of Jan Lokpal Bill.
Feb 10: Government decides to give two additional attempts to civil services aspirants, with consequential age relaxation to all categories of candidates of the exam conducted by Union Public Service Commission.
Feb 10: India and China hold a meet between their Special Representatives on the contentious boundary issue that was preceded by talks under the working mechanism on border affairs in which additional confidence building measures and steps for maintaining peace and tranquility are discussed.
Feb 11: China says border talks with India have yielded ""initial results"", enabling the two neighbours to properly handle their differences over the vexed boundary issue and maintain peace along the frontier.
Feb 11: Congress expels six Lok Sabha MPs from the Seemandhra region who had given notices of no-confidence motion against the government over their opposition to the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.
Feb 11: Independent MLA Rambir Shokeen formally withdraws support to Arvind Kejriwal led Delhi government, bringing down the strength to 35 in the 70-member house.
Feb 11: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal orders filing of an FIR against Petroleum Minister M Veerappa Moily, former minister Murli Deora and RIL chief Mukesh Ambani for alleged collusion in the hike in prices of natural gas from KG basin.
Feb 12: Food Minister K V Thomas calls Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar a backstabber for raising a banner of ""revolt"" against Congress President Sonia Gandhi in 1999 on the issue of her foreign origin.
Feb 12: Passenger fares and freight rates are left untouched in the interim rail budget, which talks about plans about involvement of private sector and FDI as part of efforts to modernise the largest transport network in the country.
Feb 13: Unprecedented pandemonium marked by fisticuffs, pepper spraying and breaking of mike is witnessed in Lok Sabha as the government introduced the controversial Telangana bill.
Feb 13: Delhi Assembly witnesses unprecedented chaotic scenes on the first day of a special session as BJP and Congress MLAs joined hands in disrupting proceedings by throwing files, destroying mikes, flagging banners and trooping to the well demanding Law Minister Somnath Bharti's resignation over the midnight raid episode.
Feb 13: Balu Mahendra ( from chennai,Tamilnadu ), who won him several national awards for films like 'Moondram Pirai'(Sadma),'Veedu' and 'Olangal', dies at a private hospital due to cardiac arrest following prolonged illness.
Feb 14: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal resigns after suffering a defeat in the assembly on the Jan Lokpal Bill
Feb 16: Sirsa (Haryana): A 45-year-old man allegedly hurls a shoe at Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda during a public meeting in Dabwali town.
Feb 16: Senior IPS officer Rakesh Maria, who was heading the Maharashtra ATS, takes charge as Mumbai Police Commissioner.
Feb 16: Thirteen people are killed and 34 injured, some of them seriously, when a mini-bus in which they were travelling plunges into a gorge in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Feb 17: YSRCP chief Jaganmohan Reddy stages a protest and courted arrest, while accusing the Congress of engineering the pepper spray episode in Parliament.
Feb 18: Lok Sabha TV went blank for the entire 90 minutes when the controversial bill to carve out Telangana as the 29th state, by splitting Andhra Pradesh Telangana Bill was being passed in the House.
Feb 22: A group of NCP activists barge into the Aam Aadmi Party office in suburban Andheri, tear and burn posters of Arvind Kejriwal and also burn his effigy.
Feb 22: Election Commission has put in place an expenditure monitoring mechanism for curbing misuse of money power during general elections.
Feb 24: High drama unfolded in the RJD with 13 of the 22 party MLAs in Bihar announcing they have quit the party in a jolt to Lalu Prasad but six of them later claim they are not part of the breakaway faction.
Feb 24: India and China agree on a slew of measures, including holding of joint Army exercise this year and strengthening maritime security cooperation while maintaining peace and tranquility on the dispute border.
Feb 24: India and Canada hold talks on a range of bilateral and international issues and decide to expand ties in diverse sectors including health, audio-visual co-production and skill development.
Feb 25: 11 Left and secular parties come together claiming to be the alternative and vow to defeat both Congress and BJP.
Feb 26: India and Russia hold wide-ranging talks on nuclear, space, energy and economic cooperation and agreed to finalise the long-pending deal for the third and fourth reactors of Kudankulam power plant soon.
Feb 26: India and Saudi Arabia ink a defence cooperation pact to take their strategic partnership further in areas of security.
Feb 26: In an unprecedented step, Navy chief Admiral Devender Kumar Joshi resigned on Wednesday, owning "moral responsibility" for warship and submarine accidents over the last six months, including the latest mishap on board submarine INS Sindhuratna off Mumbai..
Feb 27: BJP and LJP stitch a pre-poll alliance with the Ram Vilas Paswan-led party returning to the NDA fold, 12 years after it quit over Gujarat riots.
Feb 27: India and Israel sign three agreements to strengthen the efforts in the war against terror and beef up bilateral security relations.
Feb 28: The Cabinet gives mandate to the 7th Pay Commission for revising salaries of over 50 lakh central government employees and remuneration of 30 lakh pensioners.
Feb 28: The Centre raises dearness allowance to 100 per cent, from 90 per cent, benefiting its 50 lakh employees and 30 lakh pensioners.
Feb 28: A week after Kiran Kumar Reddy resigned as Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, the Centre decides to impose President's Rule in the state while announcing a few sops for the Seemandhra region which has been opposing creation of Telangana state.
No comments:
Post a Comment