National Events in September 2002
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Sep 1
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Time to review policies, says the Defence Minister, George Fernandes after being elected Samata Party leader at the national executive, in New Delhi.
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Sep 2
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The Supreme Court upholds the poll panels Aug. 16 decision to defer elections in Gujarat and delinks Presidential reference.
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Nine children die at Kolkatas B.C. Roy Memorial Childrens Hospital amid an acute shortage of oxygen, taking to 29 the toll within a week.
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Sep 3
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The Supreme Court directs Karnataka to release 1.25 tmcft water everyday to Tamil Nadu till the Cauvery River Authority takes a final decision.
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P. Shankar, is sworn in Chief Vigilance Commissioner.
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The CBI closes probe in Germany into the Rs. 420-crore HDW submarine case.
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Sep 4
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The Karnataka Government orders release of water to Tamil Nadu.
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The Centre strips the Delhi Government of all legislative and administrative powers. All business to be conducted through the Lt. Governor, Vijay Kapoor.
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Sep 8
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The Cauvery River Authority directs Karnataka to release 9,000 cusecs (0.8 tmcft) of water to Tamil Nadu overriding the apex court decision.
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Sep 9
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Over 100 persons die as the Howrah-Delhi Rajdhani Express crashes through a bridge on the Dhawa river near Gaya in Bihar.
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Sep 11
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The Jammu and Kashmir Law Minister, Mushtaq Ahmed Lone, is shot dead by a militant while addressing a public meeting in Kupwara district.
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Sep 12
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The Supreme Court upholds the National Curriculum Framework for Secondary Education.
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The first exclusive 1,060 kg meteorological satellite (METSAT), is successfully launched from the Sriharikota Space Centre, using the PSLV.
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Sep 13
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"Pakistan is indulging in nuclear blackmail following India's efforts to stampout cross-border terrorism," says the Prime Minister in his address at the 57th U.N. General Assembly session.
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The International Crop Research Institute for semi-Arid Tropics, Hyderabad, develops the first ever transgenic peanut in the world.
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Sep 22
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The Centre shelves the $1.8 billion Oman-India natural gas pipeline project due to lack of gas reserves.
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Sep 23
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The Goa Governor, Mohammad Fazal, is transferred and appointed Maharashtra Governor, Kidar Nath Sahani is made Goa Governor and V. Rama Rao is appointed to take his place in Sikkim.
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Sep 24
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Twentytine persons die in a terrorist attack on the Akshardham temple of the Swaminarayan sect in the Gujarat capital, Gandhinagar.
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Sep 25
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Temple siege ends and two terrorists holed up inside shot dead by NSG commandos.
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The Mashelkar panel on national auto fuel policy submits final report and moots Euro-III emission norms by 2005.
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Sep 26
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U.S. pressure on Paksitan not working. Eventually India will have to fight its own war on terrorism, says the Prime Minister, A.B. Vajpayee after attending a function to mark the CSIR diamond jubilee, in New Delhi.
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Sep 27
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The Haryana Police Officer, Ravi Kant Sharma, prime suspect in the murder of the Indian Express correspondent, Shivani Bhatnagar, surrenders in Ambala court.
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Sep 28
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R.K. Somany, is elected Assocham president.
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Interests of labour will be protected, says the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee and seeks consensus on economic reforms at the 38th session of the Indian Labour Conference in New Delhi.
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Sep 29
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A suspected ISI agent, Imam Ali, the alleged mastermind behind the 1993 blast at the RSS headquarters in Chennai, is killed in an encounter with the Tamil Nadu and Karnataka Police, in Bangalore.
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Sep 30
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Terrorism is blasphemy. Bullet cannot defeat the ballot, says the Prime Minister, A. B. Vajpayee at a conference of the heads of the police organisations, in New Delhi.
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