Events in July 2005
|
Jul. 1
|
The Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 comes into effect. |
Full Story
|
|
|
The Canara Bank kicks off centenary celebrations. It began operations in 1906 in Mangalore with a share capital of Rs. 10,000. |
Full Story
|
|
|
The President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, confers the Dr. B.C. Roy National Awards for 2003-04 on 35 doctors at a function in Rashtrapati Bhavan. |
Full Story
|
|
Jul. 2
|
The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, inaugurates work on the Sethusamudram channel project at a function in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. |
Full Story
|
|
|
Global power major GE reaches accord with the Union and the Maharashtra Governments on the Dabhol Project. |
Full Story
|
|
|
The toll in the rain havoc in Gujarat touches 124, with at least 60 villages lying ‘marooned’. |
Full Story
|
|
Jul. 3
|
Shiva Sena supremo, Bal Thackeray, expels the Leader of the Opposition in the Maharashtra Assembly, Narayan Rane, from the party. |
Full Story
|
|
|
The Asom Gana Parishad expels its founder — president former Assam Chief Minister, Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, from the party. |
Full Story
|
|
Jul. 4
|
Five Telangana Rashtra Samithi Ministers resign from the Andhra Pradesh Cabinet. |
Full Story
|
|
|
The U.P. police file chargesheet against Ali Mohammed, who allegedly raped his daughter-in-law Imrana. |
Full Story
|
|
|
The Supreme Court declines to stay the Madras High Court order on the Common Entrance Test. |
Full Story
|
|
|
Senior Congress leader Balram Singh Yadav dies of bullet injuries at an Agra nursing home. |
Full Story
|
|
Jul. 5
|
Security forces kill five terrorists who had stormed the Ram temple complex in Ayodhya after a 90-minute gunbattle. A suicide bomber blows himself up. |
Full Story
|
|
|
The Union Cabinet clears a proposal to withdraw restrictions on use of the Tricolour as a portion of costume or uniform by the public. |
Full Story
|
|
|
Nine Congress MLAs quit Kerala Assembly and join the National Congress (Indira). |
Full Story
|
|
Jul. 6
|
The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court sets aside a trial court order discharging BJP president, L.K. Advani, in the Babri Masjid demolition case. |
Full Story
|
|
|
Ramdas Kadam is elected the new leader of the Shiv Sena Legislature Party in Maharashtra. |
Full Story
|
|
|
The Government notifies norms for foreign investment in the print media. |
Full Story
|
|
Jul. 7
|
CPI(M) Polit Bureau members, Sitaram Yechury and Brinda Karat elected unopposed Raj Sabha members. |
Full Story
|
|
Jul. 8
|
The former Goa Chief Minister, Franciso Sardinha is elected Assembly Speaker. |
Full Story
|
|
Jul. 9
|
The Centre agress to pay monthly compensation to VAT States if the revenue collections fell short of projections. |
Full Story
|
|
Jul. 11
|
The Naval chief, Arun Prakash, launches INS Beas, a frigate with the highest level of indigenisation at the Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers in Kolkata. |
Full Story
|
|
|
The remains of a 1,200-year-old Subrahmanya temple belonging to the Pallava period are found on the beach off the Mamallapuram shores in Tamil Nadu. |
Full Story
|
|
|
Knowledge of technology is the means for realising sustainable rural prosperity, says the President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, at the first convocation of the Jamshedji Tata National Virtual Academy in New Delhi. |
Full Story
|
|
|
The Sensex for the first time crosses the 7300 mark. |
Full Story
|
|
Jul. 12
|
The Supreme Court strikes down as unconstitutional the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act passed in 1983, which provided for identification and deportation of illegal Bangladeshi migrants. |
Full Story
|
|
|
Shiv Sena rebel Narayan Rane quits as the Leader of the Opposition in the Maharashtra Assembly. |
Full Story
|
|
|
The NTPC and the Gas Authority of India Limited form a joint venture — Ratnagiri Gas and Power Limited to take over the Dabhol Power Project, following a deal among GE, Bechtel and Enron. |
Full Story
|
|
Jul. 13
|
Yash Chopra’s Veer Zaara and Cheran’s Autograph win the best film awards at the National Film Awards 2004. Saif Ali Khan (Hum Tum) and Kannada actress Tara (Hasina) bag the best actor and actress awards. Madhur Bhandarkar’s (Page 3) bags best film, screening and editing awards. |
Full Story
|
|
|
The Tamil Nadu Government lifts bar on age, terms of the State Election Commissioners under an Ordinance. |
|
|
Jul. 14
|
The Centre defers implementation of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2005, which received the President’s assent on June 23. |
Full Story
|
|
|
The Andhra Pradesh Government seeks a CBI probe into the Volkswagen car project. Botcha Satyanarayana is relieved of Major Industries portfolio. |
Full Story
|
|
|
The Madras High Court orders closure of 660 dyeing units in Tirupur following their failure to install reverse osmosis plants. |
Full Story
|
|
|
Shanti, an offbeat Kannada film enters the Guinness Book of World Records. |
Full Story
|
|
|
The French Government honours dancers Mallika Sarabhai and Alarmel Valli with Knight of Order of Arts & Letters awards, in New Delhi. |
Full Story
|
|
Jul. 15
|
Nine militants are killed by the army after a 100-hour gunbattle in North Kashmir’s Gurez sector. |
Full Story
|
|
|
The U.P. Police identify two militants killed in the Ramjanmabhoomi complex as Pakistan nationals belonging to the Lashkar-e-Taiba. |
Full Story
|
|
|
The Army starts a chartered flight for soldiers serving on the Siachen glacier. |
Full Story
|
|
Jul. 17
|
The Andhra Pradesh Sports Minister, M. Satyanarayana Rao, quits following reports alleging his involvement in a land scam. |
|
|
Jul. 18
|
India celebrates silver jubilee of the first successful flight of Satellite Launch Vehicle-3 on January 18, 1980 from Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. |
Full Story
|
|
Jul. 19
|
The moderate faction of the Hurriyat Conference and Kashmiri Pandits begin path-breaking talks after 16 years, in Rajbagh, Srinagar. |
Full Story
|
|
Jul. 20
|
The Supreme Court approves the Rs. 1,330-crore out-of-court deal arrived at between the Maharashtra Government and the Dabhol Power Corporation. |
Full Story
|
|
Jul. 21
|
The Madras High Court quashes the December 2002 Tamil Nadu Government order on POTA declaring the entire State a notified area. |
Full Story
|
|
|
The Centre orders CBI probe into infirmities in the privatisation of the two State-run Centaur hotels in Mumbai. |
Full Story
|
|
|
The Maharashtra Assembly passes the Bombay Police (Amendment) Bill prohibiting dance bars in the State. |
Full Story
|
|
Jul. 22
|
German auto major Volkswagen decides to pay Rs. 11.67 crores as damages to the Andhra Pradesh Government for the suspected illegal dealings of a former official. |
Full Story
|
|
|
A Mumbai special court convicts Mohammed Afroze Abdul Razzak and sentences him to seven years RI for conspiring to blow up Parliament. |
Full Story
|
|
Jul. 23
|
Expelled Shiv Sena leader, Narayan Rane, quits the Maharashtra Assembly. |
Full Story
|
|
|
The ONGC and the L.N. Mittal Group the world’s largest steel producer sign memoranda of understanding to set up two joint venture firms in a unique public-private partnership. |
Full Story
|
|
Jul. 24
|
A major earthquake rocks the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and parts of coastal south India. |
Full Story
|
|
|
Army personnel kill three teenagers at Bagargund village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district mistaking them to be militants. |
Full Story
|
|
Jul. 25
|
Haryana police brutally assault protesting workers of the Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India seeking higher wages in Gurgaon, critically injuring hundreds. |
|
|
|
The Government decides to extend President’s rule in Bihar by six months. |
Full Story
|
|
|
The Government gives greater autonomy to PSUs doubling their investment capacity without clearances from ministries. |
Full Story
|
|
|
A tripartite wage pact for the tea industry is arrived at in West Bengal. |
Full Story
|
|
Jul. 26
|
At least 54 persons are killed in the worst floods in Raigad district on the Konkan coast of Maharashtra. Life in Mumbai badly hit and many die in a landslip at Saki Naka. |
Full Story
|
|
Jul. 27
|
An entire offshore ONGC oil platform, BHN, in the Bombay High is gutted after a support vessel rams it triggering an inferno. Twelve lose their lives. |
Full Story
|
|
|
The Supreme Court upholds the conviction of the former Punjab DGP, K.P.S. Gill, for outraging the modesty of IAS officer, Rupan Deol Bajaj, at a party on July 18, 1988. |
Full Story
|
|
|
Mumbai’s suburbs receive an unprecedented 944.2 mm rainfall exceeding the previous high of 838.2 mm recorded in Cherrapunjee, Meghalya, on July 12, 1910. The rain havoc causes Rs. 5,000 crore loss. |
Full Story
|
|
Jul. 28
|
The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, announces grant of Rs. 500 crores to Maharashtra even as the rain toll crosses 500. Eighteen persons are killed in a stampede in a Mumbai slum triggered by rumours of a tsunami. |
Full Story
|
|
|
A CBI Special Court in Rae Bareli frames charges against the BJP president, L.K. Advani and seven others in the Babri Masjid demolition case. |
Full Story
|
|
Jul. 29
|
The death toll in the Maharashtra monsoon fury touches 749. |
Full Story
|
|
Jul. 30
|
Expelled Shiv Sena leader, Narayan Rane, joins the Congress and is sworn in a Cabinet Minister in the Maharashtra Government. |
|
Events 2005
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
|
