Events in January 2007
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Jan. 1
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Tamil Nadu switches over to the value-added tax regime. |
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Uttaranchal gives effect to name change, becomes Uttarakhand. |
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Jan. 3
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Sensex crosses the 14000-mark for the first time. |
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Jan. 4
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Railways sign agreements with 14 private parties to handle container transport operations, hitherto the monopoly of Concor. |
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INS Shardul, a landing warship is dedicated to the Nation at a function in Karwar. |
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Jan. 5
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Fortyeight Biharis are killed in serial attacks by the ULFA in Assam’s Tinsukia, Dibrugarh and Dhemaji districts. |
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Jan. 7
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Get involved in the “great adventure” of building an India free from the fear of war, want and exploitation, the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, tells diaspora at the Fifth Pravasi Bharatiya Divas in New Delhi. |
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Nine Biharis are killed in Upper Assam’s Dibrugarh and Sivasagar districts. |
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Jan. 8
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Biharis flee Assam even as the ULFA kills three more persons, two at Barpathar in upper Assam’s Golaghat district and one at Duliajan in Dibrugarh district. |
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Stray incidents mark West Bengal bandh to protest against the death of six persons in violence at Nandigram in Purbo Medinipur district on January 6 and 7. |
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Jan. 10
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India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C7) is successfully launched from Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh and places in orbit four satellites, one of them being the Space Capsule Recovery Experiment. |
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The Supreme Court upholds the expulsion of 11 MPs in December 2005 for their role in the cash-for-query scam. |
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The CBI takes over probe into the Nithari serial killings. |
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Jan. 11
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A nine-judge Supreme Court Bench holds there can be no blanket immunity from judicial review of laws inserted in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution. |
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India and Portugal sign an extradition treaty after talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the visiting President Anibal Antonio Cavaco Silva in New Delhi. |
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Jan. 12
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The Supreme Court upholds the death sentence awarded to Mohammad Afzal in the December 13, 2001 Parliament attack case. |
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Jan. 14
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Justice Konakuppakattil Gopinathan Balakrishnan is sworn in the 37th Chief Justice of India succeeding Justice Y.K. Sabharwal. |
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Jan. 17
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With the right approach, governments and business can prove to society the benefits of a more integrated world economy, says the Portuguese President, Anibal Antonio Cavaco Silva, at the inauguration of Indian Industry partnership Summit 2007 in Bangalore. |
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Jan. 19
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The 1,450 MW Sardar Sarovar Narmada Dam hydroelectric project is dedicated to the nation at the damsite in Kevadiya Colony of Gujarat’s Narmada district. |
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The former Intelligence Bureau Chief E.S.L. Narasimhan is appointed Chhattisgarh Governor. Senior Congress leader K.Sankaranarayanan to be Nagaland Governor. |
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Jan. 21
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Tata Motors begins work on its car making plant in Singur, West Bengal. |
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Jan. 23
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The Supreme Court stays the conviction and three year sentence awarded to cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu in a 1988 road rage death case. |
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Jan. 25
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India and Russia sign a memorandum of intent “to add four units to the nuclear power plant” under construction at Koodankulam in Tamil Nadu after Manmohan Singh-Putin talks in New Delhi. |
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Fali Nariman and Khushwant Singh are among 10 eminent persons conferred the Padma Vibhushan award. Sunil Mittal and Indra Nooyi among Padma Bhushan awardees. Vikram Seth, Teesta Setalvad and Koneru Humpy prominent among Padma Shri awardees. |
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Jan. 26
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The Nation celebrates its 58th Republic Day. |
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Jan. 30
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Air Marshal Fali H.Major is appointed new IAF Chief. |
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Jan. 31
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Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu of South Africa is presented with the Gandhi Peace Prize 2005 by the President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in New Delhi. |
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