Events in July 2007
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Jul. 3
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Jamnagar district in Gujarat receives a record rainfall of over 450 mm in the last three days. Torrential rains continue to lash Kolkata. |
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R.S. Sharma is formally appointed ONGC Chairman and Managing Director after having been at the helm for 13 months and will hold the post till 2011. |
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Jul. 4
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Duvvuri Subbarao takes charge as the Union Finance Secretary. |
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Jul. 6
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Sensex breaches the 15,000 mark with IT shares dominating the market. |
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Jul. 8
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The former Prime Minister and Samajwadi Janata Party president, Chandra Shekhar (80), dies at the Apollo Hospital, New Delhi of cancer. |
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Jul. 12
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The Madras High Court strikes down provisions of the Tamil Nadu Professional Educational Institutions Act mandating surrender of seats by unaided professional colleges. |
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Jul. 13
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The Bombay Stock Exchange’s Sensex touches 15272.72 and the NSE’s Nifty closes at 4504.55. |
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GAIL (India) Ltd. delivers first gas consignment to the Dabhol Power Plant in Maharashtra. This is also the plant’s first such allocation since it began operations in May 1999. |
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Jul. 16
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The Gujarat CID files a 713 page chargesheet against 13 police officials in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. |
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Jul. 17
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India, Brazil and South Africa decide to undertake trilateral cooperation in civilian nuclear field. |
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Jul. 19
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About 88.5 per cent of parlimentarians and 91 per cent of legislators cast votes in the 13th Presidential election. |
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Jul. 20
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The Union Commerce Minister, Kamal Nath, launches the e-filing of patent and trademark applications at a function in New Delhi. |
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Jul. 21
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Pratibha Devisingh Patil is declared elected the 12th President defeating the Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat. |
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Bhairon Singh Shekhawat resigns as Vice-President. |
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The first “jumbo machine-readable passport” is released by the Minister of State for External Affairs, E. Ahamed, in Bangalore. |
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Jul. 22
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Shiv Kumar alias Dadua often referred to as “Veerappan of North India” is gunned by the U.P. police in Ahleua jungles in Chitrakoot district. |
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Jul. 24
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Preserve rich treasures of culture even while pursuing economic growth, says the President, A.P.J.Abdul Kalam, in his ‘thanksgiving address to the nation” on his last day in office. |
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Jul. 25
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Pratibha Patil is sworn in President becoming in the process the first woman to occupy the highest office in the nation. |
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The Union Cabinet approves the text of the ‘123’ civilian nuclear cooperation agreement arrived at between the U.S. and Indian negotiators in Washington. |
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Jul. 26
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Lt. Gen. Deepak Kapoor is appointed the next Chief of the Army Staff. |
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Kanimozhi and Tiruchi N. Siva and the CPI National Secretary D. Raja take oath as Rajya Sabha members. |
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Jul. 27
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Yakub Memon, brother of Tiger Memon the prime plotter in the 1993 Mumbai blasts is awarded death sentence, his brothers Essa and Yusuf and sister-in-law Rubeena are awarded life imprisonment by the special TADA court. |
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A special court in Chandigarh convicts six persons for assassinating the then Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh on August 31, 1995 in the Punjab Civil Secretariat. |
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Jul. 28
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Maninder Pal Singh Kohli accused in British teenager Hannah Foster murder in March 2003 is handed over to the British police. |
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Jul. 29
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Mohammed Haneef reaches home after a 27-day ordeal in Australia. |
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Jul. 30
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The Goa Chief Minister, Digambar Kamat, wins the floor test in Assembly by a voice vote. |
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Jul. 31
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Film actor Sanjay Dutt is jailed for six years in the 1993 Mumbai blasts for illegal possession of a prohibited weapon. |
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A special court in Chandigarh awards death sentence to Jagtar Singh Hawara and Balwant Singh for the assassination of Beant Singh. Three others are awarded life term. |
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