2008 in India

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[edit] February

  • 2, The activists of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) try to disrupt a press conference of Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh in Mumbai.
  • 2, Baba Ram Rahim Gurmeet Singh, the head of the Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda sect escaped a bomb blast near Nilokheri in Karnal district of Haryana.
  • 3, Members of teams trying to conduct social audit of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) were attacked in Manohar Thana block of Jhalwar district in Rajasthan.
  • 3, Inaugurating the tenth Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) for documentary, short and animation films at the National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai, the Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi announced that a dedicated channel for short films in the Eleventh Plan is under consideration.
  • 5, The Orissa government decides to provide a monthly pension of Rs. 200 to HIV positive persons under the State-sponsored ‘Madhu Babu Pension Yojana.’
  • 7, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss dedicates to the nation the first in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) facility in the public sector set up at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi.
  • 12, “Year of Russia in India” was inaugurated jointly by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Russian counterpart Victor Zubkov in New Delhi.
  • 13, Priyaranjan Dasmunsi, Saifuddin Soz and Suresh Pachauri are made presidents of West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir, and Madhya Pradesh units of the Congress respectively.
  • 14, The Government decides to extend visa of exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen, for another six months. Her visa was to expire on February 17.
  • 15, The Election Commission issues notice to Congress president Sonia Gandhi seeking her response to an allegation that she had incurred disqualification as member of Parliament under Article 102(1)(d) of the Constitution for accepting the Order of Leopold from the King of Belgium in November 2006.
  • 19, Viswapati Trivedi becomes the Joint Chairman-cum-Managing Director of the National Aviation Company of India Limited (NACIL.
  • 19, The K.K. Birla Foundation decides to give the following awards:(1) The Sixteenth Vachaspati Puraskar for 2007 to Swami Rambhadracharya for his work Sribhargavaraghaviyam (Mahakavyam).(2)The 2007 Bihari Puraskar to Hindi poet Yashwant Vyas for his Hindi novel Comrade Godse. (3) The Shankar Puraskar for 2007 to Prof. R.S. Tripathi for his work Baudh Darshan Prasthan.
  • 20, The former Queen Mother of Jaipur Gayatri Devi sat on a dharna near the Moti Doongri Fort protesting encroachment, by the land mafia, of land she donated.
  • 20, Bengali poet and novelist Sunil Gangopadhyay elected president of the Sahitya Akademi.
  • 24, In an affidavit filed before the Gujarat High Court, the CID has officially implicated former Gujarat Additional Director General of Police, D. G. Vanzara, as the “chief conspirator” in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case.
  • 24, Tarun Vijay joins Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee Reaserch Foundation, the BJP’s newly created think tank, as its Director. He has been the Chief Editor of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh organ Panchjanya.
  • 26, Ratakonda Dayakar named India’s new Ambassador to Sweden. Dayakar is 1976 batch IFS officer.
  • 26, Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar predicts the foodgrain production to reach the record level of 219.32 million tonnes during 2007–08.
  • 27, Three teachers in Jalaun district in UP sent to jail under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. They were found to be discriminating against the dalit children by making SC students have their mid-day meal separately.

[edit] March

  • 3, Central government launches Dhan Laxmi scheme in seven states. Under this scheme an insurance cover of Rs 1 lakh would be provided for the girl child at her birth. The scheme aims to improve the girl-child ratio.
  • 5, S. M. Krishna resigns from his post of Maharashtra Governor.
  • 9, J. P. Chalasani is appointed the new chief executive of the Reliance Power, an Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group company.
  • 10, D. D. Lapang sworn in as the Chief Minister of a new Congress-led government in Meghalaya.
  • 18, Donkupar Roy of the Meghalaya Progressive Alliance (MPA) sworn in as the Chief Minister of Meghalaya.
  • 23, India test fires nuclear-capable surface-to-surface missile Agni-I having a range of 700 to 900 km.
  • 24, The Sixth Pay Commission recommends increase in the salaries of all government employees by 40%.
  • 25, Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhajan Lal disqualified from the Haryana Vidhan Sabha under the anti-defection law
  • 26, Raghu Menon is new Chairman-cum-Managing Director of the Air India and National Aviation Company India Ltd (NACIL). Menon an IAS officer of the 1974 batch from the Nagaland cadre.
  • 26, Tata Motors buys two British automobile manufacturing companies, Jaguar and Land Rover, from Ford, their American owners.
  • 27, Communist Party of India (CPI) re-elects A. B. Bardhan as the general secretary for the fourth consecutive term.

[edit] April

[edit] May

[edit] June

  • 4, The government announces a hike in petrol, diesel and LPG prices by Rs 5, Rs 3 and Rs 50 respectively.

[edit] Scheduled Events

[edit] Deaths

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