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Major Events -1998 :
1. The film Titanic 11 Oscar awards (Mar 24).
2. Konkan Railway Project is commissioned -stretches over 760 kms;with longest tunnel-6.5 kms.(May 1).
3. India conducts Nuclear Tests at Pokharan (May 11).
4. Bomb attacks on USA Embbassies in Dar-es-Salem and Nairobi killing 224 people (Aug 7).
5. Prof.Amartya Sen is awarded Nobel Prize for Economics (Oct 14).
6. Northern Ireland Catholic leader John Hume and Protestant leader David Trimble awarded 1998 Nobel
Peace Prize (Oct 16).
7. John Glenn,the first American to orbit the earth returns into space after 36 years aboard the Shuttle Discovery (Oct 29).
8. Viagra-Discovery of the anti-impotency pill-1998 Special !
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Major Events-1999 :
1. Grahan Stuart Steins ,an Australian missionary and social workers is burnt to death along with his two
sons at Manoharpur,Orissa (Jan 23).
2. Agni-II test fired successfully (Apr 11).
3. Kargil 'war' starts (May-June).
4. Last Solar Eclipse of the Millennium (aug 11).
5. Gregory Smith,10 year old boy became the youngest person to attend University,having completed 13-year school curriculum (Sept 21).
6. Military coup in Pakistan by General Pervez Musharraf; Nawaz Sharif is dismissed (Oct 12).
7. American Senate rejects CTBT by 51 votes to 48 (Oct 13).
8. A.B. Vajpayee forms coalition government of 21 parties-P.M. Sayeed is elected M.P.for the 10th time-an unbroken record! (Oct 13).
9. Super Cyclone devastates coastal areas of Orissa (Oct 29).
10. His Holiness pope John Paul II,Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church visits Delhi (Nov 5).
11. Indian Airlines A-300 Airbus is hijacked by suspected Pakistani-Afghan militants(Dec 24).
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Major Events-2000 :
1. India completes 50 years as a Republic (Jan 26).
2. Biggest spy scandal admits the existence of a secret spy network capable of tapping every telephone,fax and e-mail (Feb 15).
3. BJP led NDA Government makes a record of highest number of decisions (an average of 2 per day as assessed in Feb)..
4. U.S.President Bill Clinton arrives in Delhi on a 4-days State visit (Mar 20).
5. Russia's acting president Vladimir Putin elected President (Mar 28).
6. London born Bengali Jhumpa Lahir wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction (Apr 11).
7. Karnam Malleshwari wins the only Medal(Bronze) for India in the Sydney Olympic (Sept 19).
8. New States of Chhattisgarh,Jharkhand and Uttaranchal are formed (Nov 1-15).
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Major Events-2001 :
1. George W.Bush is sworn in as the 43rd President of the USA (Jan 20).
2. Gujarat is hit by a devastating earthquake killing thousands in Bhuj, Ahmedabad and other cities (Jan 26).
3. Cricket legend Donald Bradman dies at the age of 92 (Feb 25).
4. Gopi Chand of A.P.wins All England Badminton Championship (Mar 11).
5. Website Tehelka.com reveals corruption in defence deals involving politics and arny officers (Mar 13).
6. As per 2001 Census , India's population is 1027,015,247 (Mar 26).
7. Tiger Woods holds all 4 golf titles of the year (Apr 8).
8. King Birendra and other seven members of the Royal family of Nepal are shot dead, reportedly by Crown Prince Dipendra (June 1).
9. Terrorists crash 2 palnes into New York's World Trade Centre and another into Pentagon (Sept 11).
10. Taliban Government is replaced by Nothern Alliance(Nov).
11. Barbaric attack on Indian Parliament by terrorists groups, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashker-e-Taiba. (Dec 13). World population in 2001 is 6,1340.1 million.
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Major Events-2002 :
1. 300 million Europeans in 12 nations bid goodbye to their currencies and adopted EURO as the common currency.Common feeling that Euro will bring people closer (Jan 1).
2. Apple CEO Stev Jobs introduces the newly designed i Mac Computer which incorporates a 15 of inch flat screen which can float in the air (Jan 7).
3. American Centre in Kolkata is attacked by masked men killing 5 policemen and injuring 17 (Jan 22).
4. INSTAT-3C, a multi-purpose space system is successful launched form French Guiana spaceport of Kourou in S. America (Jan 24).
5. Jennifer Capriati and Thomas Johansson win Australian Open (Jan 26-27).
6. John Hume,the architect of the Nothern Ireland peace process wins Gandhi Peace Prize (Feb 1).
7. Oldest newly weds-Francois Fernandez, 96 (widower) marries Madelsin Francineau, 94 (widow) at Clapiers, France (Feb 2).
8. Aamir Khan's block buster LAGAAN gets the nomination for Oscar in the foreign film category (Feb 12).
9. BJP and allies get drubbing in all four states where elections were held. Congress forms Government in Uttaranchal, Punjab and Manipur (Feb 24).
10. Mob attacks and sets fire to 2 bogies of Sabarmati Express; 58 people were charred to death (Feb 27).
11. Riots break out in Gujarat; mob rule and mass murders are targetted agains the minority community. BJP. Chief Minister Narendra Modi's reaction: "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction !",death toll-over 900 people (Mar 1).
12. G.M.Balayogi,Lok Sabha Speaker dies in a helicopter crash (Mar 3).
13. Halle Berry, first ever African American woman wins Oscar Best Actress award-(film-Monster's Ball) (Mar 24).
14. POTA (Bill to Prevent Terrorism)passed in the Joint Session of the Parliament (Mar 26).
15. Congress wins record 108 seats of the 133 in the Delhi Municipal elections. BJP wins just 17 (Mar 30).
16. Els van Breda Vriesman of Holland is the first woman President of international Hockey federation.
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Major Events-2003 :
1. Indian government decides on "dual citizenship" permit for people of Indian origin living in certain countries. (Jan 9).
2. Kiran Bedi,the first woman IPS officer,is appointed the U.N.O.'s Civilian Police Advisor (Jan 11).
3. The Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates over the State of Texas killing all seven astronauts,including the Indian American, Kalpana Chawla (Feb 1).
4. Over 170 Nations give their nod to the Framework Convention on Tabacco control (Mar 1).
5. Fidel Castro (76) is elected President for a record sixth term by Cuba's Parliament (Mar 6).
6. U.S. launches attack on Iraq (Mar 20).
7. INSAT-3A is successfully launched from the French Guyanese Spaceport of Kourou (Apr 10).
8. Union Cabinet decides to restrict size of both Union and State council of Ministers(Apr 23).
9. France bids adieu to Concorde,the luxury aircraft in service since 1976 (May 30).
10. INSAT 3-E,the ISRO's Communication Satellite is launched (Sept 28).
11. Pope John Paul II beatifies Mother Terasa at a grandiose ceremoney in St.Peter's Square, Vatican City (Oct 19).
12. U.S. troops capture the former Iraqi President,Saddam Hussain (Dec 13).
13. Lok Sabha passes the POTA Amendment Bill 2003 providing for safeguard against misuse (Dec 16).
14. India defeats Australia by 4 Wickets in the 2nd Test at Adelaide Oval (Dec 16).
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Major Events-2004 :
1. The President A.P.J.Abdul Kalam dissolves the 13th Lok Sabha (NDA advances general elections with hyped "India Shining" campaign (Feb 6).
2. Elections to 14th Lok Sabha begin (Apr 20).
3. Ban on smoking at public places and direct or indirect advertising of all tabacco items comes into effect (May 1).
4. India's surface-to-surface missile , Agni A1 is successfully test fired,from the interim Test Range, Orissa (July 4).
5. India's population touches 102.8 Crores (July 4).
6. Eighty-seven school children are killed in a fire accident in a Kumbakonam School,T.N. (July 16).
7. The Athens Olympic gets off to a spectacular start (Aug 13).
8. ISRO launches the 1950 kg.EDUSAT, India's first exclusive satellite for educational facilities (Sept 20).
9. The forest brigand Veerappan is short dead by Tamil Nadu STF ending two decades long hunt (Oct 18).
10. The Kanchi Sankaracharya, Sri Jayendra Saraswati is arrested on charges of 'abetting the murder' of
Sankararaman (Nov 11).
11. The Palestinian Liberation Organisation Chairman, Yaseer Arafat, dies in Paris (Nov 11).
12. Sachin Tendulkar equals Sunil Gavaskar's record of 34 Test centuries in Dhaka (Dec 11).
13. Millan Viaduct,the world's longest and tallest bridge (costing $520 million)is inaugurated by the French President Jacques Chiraq. It stretches 2.46kms. (Dec 14).
14. Tsunami devastation in South and South East Asia,killing some 130,000, Andaman and Nicobar, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh were worst hit in India (Dec 26).
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