Events in February 2010
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Feb. 1
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Sensex makes an unexpected rally, notching up 332.61 points to end at 16356.03. |
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Feb. 2
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Samajwadi Party Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh and Rampur MP Jayaprada are expelled from the party. |
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The Uttar Pradesh police arrest Hamiduddin alias Hamiruddin alias Salim wanted in connection with the December 1993 train blasts. |
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Sensex ends at a two-and-a-half month low of 16163.44. |
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Feb. 3
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The government constitutes a five-member committee under Justice Srikrishna on the Telangana issue. |
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P. Sainath, Rural Affairs Editor of The Hindu is given the Bharat Asmita national award for using the mass media for public awakening at a function in Pune. He shares it with film and theatre director Jabbar Patel. |
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Feb. 4
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The U.P. Assembly passes the State Special Zone Security Force Bill for the creation of a separate force to protect the memorials, statues of Dalit icons in Lucknow and NOIDA. |
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Sensex plunges 271 points on allround selling and settles at 16224.95. |
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Feb. 5
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The Calcutta High Court upholds death sentence for two persons for their role in the January 22, 2002 attack on the American Centre. Three get lifer and two freed. |
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Uttarakhand bans Bt Brinjal, the genetically modified crop. |
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Sensex loses 434.02 points to close at 15790.93. |
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Ten workers and a two-year-old boy one buried alive after an under-construction building collapses in Hyderabad. |
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Feroze Abdul Rashid Khan alias Hamza, wanted in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case is held by Mumbai police. |
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Feb. 7
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Agni III, a long range surface-to-surface ballistic missile is successfully launched from the Wheeler Island off Orissa. |
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Feb. 8
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The Andhra Pradesh High Court strikes down quota for sections of Muslims in education and public employment. |
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The West Bengal government announces a 10 per cent quota in jobs for the weaker sections among Muslims under the OBC category. |
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Sensex fails to regain the 16000 mark but manages to close in the green at 15935.61. |
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Feb. 9
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The Environment Ministry imposes moratorium on the release of the transgenic brinjal hybrid developed by Mayco, a subsidiary of global seed giant Monsanto. |
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Russian director Alexander Gutman’s 17 August wins the Golden Conch for the Best Documentary at the 11th Mumbai International Film Festival of Documentary, Animation and Short Films. Umesh Kulkarni’s The Spell is adjudged the best fiction film. |
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Sensex gains 107 points and ends the day at 16042.18. |
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India and Turkey unveil a joint declaration accepting the need for a Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. Issue joint declaration on S & T. |
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Nitin Gadkari is formally elected BJP President for a three-year term. |
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Feb. 10
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S. C. Sinha is appointed Director-General of the National Investigation Agency. |
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Ten students of the Don Bosco School at Palin in Arunachal Pradesh’s Kurung Kamey district are killed in a fire at a private hostel. |
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Feb. 11
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India signs a “declaration” on civilian nuclear cooperation with the U.K. in New Delhi. |
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The defence lawyer of 26/11 accused Fahim Ansari, Shahid Azmi is shot dead at his house in Taximan’s colony in Kurla, Mumbai. |
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The Gujarat High Court orders fresh probe into the alleged rioting and murders at Kalol in the Panchmahals district on February 28, 2002. |
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Sensex gains 230.42 points to close at 16152.59. |
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Feb. 12
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The Centre announces the seven-point terms of reference of the Srikrishna Committee on the Telangana issue. |
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Feb. 13
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Nine persons, mostly youth, including four women are killed and 40 injured in a bomb blast which ravages the famous German Bakery on North Main Avenue in Pune’s Koregaon Park near the Osho Ashram. |
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Feb. 14
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Fourteen MLAs from the Telangana region resign to protest against the terms of reference of the Srikrishna Committee. |
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Feb. 15
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The Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker accepts the resignation of 12 Telangana MLAs. |
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At least 24 Eastern Frontier Rifles jawans are killed as Maoists attack a security camp at Silda in West Bengal’s Paschim Medinipur district. |
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Feb. 16
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Renowned Hindustani vocalist Pandit Jasraj, veteran film actor Shreeram Lagoo and danseuse Yamini Krishnamurti among six personalities to be awarded with Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship. |
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The toll in the Pune blast goes up to 10 with the death of Abhishek Kumar of Lucknow. |
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India offers a 250-million line of credit to Nepal following talks between Nepalese President, Ram Baran Yadav and Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh in New Delhi. |
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Feb. 17
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The toll in the Pune blast touches 11 with the death of Aditya Mehta of New Delhi. |
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The Supreme Court sets up a fire-member empowered committee to go into all issues concerning the Mullaiperiyar dam. |
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Maoists kill 12 tribals and injure eight in an attack on Kasari village in Bihar’s Jammu district. |
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Feb. 18
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The Supreme Court appoints the former Chief Justice of India A.S. Anand as the Chairman of the Empowered Committee on Mullaperiyar issue. |
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The Union Cabinet gives nod for a new pact with the U.S. on Agriculture Cooperation and Food Security. |
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Feb. 19
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Shyam Saran, the Special Envoy of the Prime Minister on Climate Change quits. |
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Feb. 20
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Students of Osmania Univeristy clash with Police on the campus. Siripuram Yadagiri of Maheshwaram Mandal in Rangareddy district immolates himself. |
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A Sudanese student and footballer Amjed Algazoli and a youth Atul Ganpat Anap die of injuries sustained in the Pune blast taking the toll to 13. |
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Feb. 21
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A body recovered from the Porur lake on February 13 is confirmed by the Chennai Police to be that of CPI(M) leader W.R.Varada Rajan. |
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BJP leader L.K.Advani is elected NDA working Chairman and Sharad Yadav the coalition’s convenor. |
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Vikas Tulsyani (24) and Rajiv Agarwala (23) of Kolkata die of injuries suffered in the German Bakery blast taking the toll to 15. |
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Peace March to Mumbai by well-wishers of the Victims. |
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Siripuram Yadagiri who attempted self-immolation in support of the Telangana issue dies. |
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Feb. 22
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The former Rajasthan Chief Minister, Vasundhra Raje, steps down as Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly. |
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The Armed Forces Tribunal quashes the Court of Enquiry proceedings against Lt. General Avadesh Prakash in the Sukna land scam and orders a de novo probe. |
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Lalmohan Tudu, a senior leader of the Police Santrash Birodhi Janasadaraner committee is killed in firing by security forces to foil an attack on the Katapahari camp near Lalgarh in West Bengal’s Paschism Medinipur District. |
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Feb. 23
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Nine Persons one killed and 68 injured in a fire at Carlton Towers, a seven-storey commercial complex at Bangalore. |
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Sushma Swaraj takes over as the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha. |
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Feb. 24
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A record plan outlay of Rs.41,426 crore is proposed for the current year in the Railway Budget. Sanskriti Express a special train to mark Rabindranath Tagore’s 150th birth Anniversary; ‘Karmabhoomi trains’ and special tourist trains, ‘Bharat Tirth’ are among highlights. |
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Maqbool Fida Hussain, India’s most celebrated artist gets Qatar Nationality. |
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Feb. 25
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The Union Cabinet clears the Women’s Reservation Bill which had been hanging fire for close to 14 years. |
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Twelve persons are killed while trying to blast a 3,500 tonne boulder in a quarry at a mine in Chimakurthi, Ongole district of Andhra Pradesh. |
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Feb. 26
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A sum of Rs.66,100 crore is provided for rural development and allocation for defence goes up to Rs.1,47,344 Crore in the Union Budget for 2010-11. National Social Security fund for unorganised sector on the anvil. |
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The toll in the German Bakery blast in Pune goes up to 17 with the death of Aditi Jindal from Ambala at the Inlaks Budhrami Hospital. |
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Feb. 27
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Fifty two persons accused of being involved in the 2008 riots in Orissa’s Kandhamal district are freed. |
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Rajan Bharti Mittal takes over as the FICCI president. |
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