National Events in November 2002

Nov 1 Developing nations resist pressures on GHG issue; adopt Delhi Declaration at the end of the UN Conference on Climate Change. Full Story
Kamal Pande, takes over as Cabinet Secretary. Full Story
Nov 2 Mufti Mohammad Sayeed is sworn in Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and Congress leader Mangat Ram Sharma, Deputy Chief Minister. Full Story
Nov 8 Justice Gopal Ballab Pattanaik, is sworn in Chief Justice of India. Full Story
Nov 9 The Bangalore City Police effect a huge arms haul and nab five Tamil militants. Full Story
Nov 11 A senior All Party Hurriyat Conference leader, Yasin Malik is released after eight months detention from the Kot Bhalwal jail, in Jammu. Full Story
Nov 12 The Microsoft Chairman, Bill Gates pledges Rs. 2,000 crores to India over the next three years. Full Story
Nov 14 India will use nuclear arms in retaliation, says the President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, in New Delhi. Full Story
Nov 15 A Special Court in New Delhi frames charges against the three Hinduja brothers in the Rs. 64-crore Bofors payoff case Full Story
Nov 19 No power should enforce its will on any country, says the Prime Minister, A.B. Vajpayee, in New Delhi. Iraq Must relinquish weapons, if any. Full Story
The President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, presents the 2001 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development to the former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadako Ogata, in New Delhi. Full Story
Nov 20 Interlinking of rivers only solution to drought, says the Prime Minister, A.B. Vajpayee in Lok Sabha. Full Story
The Cambodian Patriarch King Norodom Sihanouk is awarded the 2002 Indira Gandhi Peace Prize. Full Story
Nov 23 Justice K. Venkataswami, quits Tehelka probe panel and as Chairman, Authority on Advance Rulings of Excise and Customs following criticism in Parliament. Full Story
Nov 24 Militants attack the Raghunath temple in Jammu for the second time in nine months killing nine persons and injuring 42. Another shrine also targeted. Full Story
Nov 26 Ban on NSCN (IM) lifted. Full Story
Parliament passes the Securitisation Bill, smoothening the way for banks and FIs in NPA recovery from corporates. Full Story
Nov 27 Parliament nod for Constitution 93rd Amendment Bill, making elementary education a fundamental right. Full Story
Lok Sabha passes the SEBI Bill which seeks to give more teeth to the market regulator. Full Story
Events 2002