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THE HINDU
FEBRUARY
Feb. 1: Veteran actor Dilip Kumar
is conferred Lifetime Achievement
Award at the Jaipur International
Film Festival.
Malini Parthasarathy takes charge
as the first woman Editor of The
Hindu.
Feb. 4: Union Home Secretary
Anil Goswami is sacked for allegedly
trying to stall the arrest of former
Minister Matang Singh. L.C. Goyal
appointed in his place.
Feb. 5: L.C. Goyal takes charge as
Union Home Secretary.
The election of a returned candi- CPI leader Govind Pansare.
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APRIL
April 1: The Supreme Court stays
summons issued by a Special Court
against the former Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh and five others in
the coal scam case.
The Andhra Pradesh government
decides to name the new capital Amaravati.
April 3: President Pranab Mukherjee signs the new Land Acquisition Ordinance.
April 7: Twenty woodcutters
from Tamil Nadu found felling red
sanders are killed by police in an
alleged encounter in the Seshachalam forest in Andhra Pradesh.
The Union Cabinet gives nod for
the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill.
MAY
May 3: President Pranab Mukherjee presents to Kangana Ranaut
the 62nd National Film Award for
Best Actress for her role in Queen
and award for best feature film to
debut director Chaitanya Tamhane.
May 6: A Mumbai sessions court
holds Bollywood actor Salman Khan
guilty of homicide in the September
28, 2002 hit-and-run case and sentences him to 5-years RI.
The Constitution (122nd Amendment) Bill for introduction of Goods
and Services Tax sails through the
Lok Sabha.
The Rajya Sabha unanimously
passes the Constitution (119th)
Amendment Bill to enable the ratification of the Land Boundary
Agreement with Bangladesh hanging
fire since 1974.
Sensex tanks 723 points to close at
26717.37 on huge selloff by FIIs.
May 7: The Juvenile Justice
(Care and Protection of Children)
Bill that provides for trying juveniles
aged between 16 and 18 years for
heinous crimes under laws for adults
is passed by the Lok Sabha.
Parliament unanimously ap-
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decides to file an appeal in the Supreme Court against verdict acquitting Jayalalithaa and three others in
the disproportionate assets case.
The trial run of the Kolkata-Dhaka-Agartala bus service begins in
Kolkata.
June 2: The Hindu Business Line
launches www.bloncampus.com or
BLOC, a first of its kind website tailored for B-Schoolers and B-School
aspirants.
Sensex plummets 660.61 points to
close at 27188.38
June 3: The Centre lodges a complaint against Nestle Maggi noodles
with the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission.
June 4: Tamil Nadu bans the
manufacture, stocking and sale of
Maggi and three other noodle brands
for three months.
June 5: Nestle withdraws Maggi
and the Food Safety and Standards
Authority of India orders recall of all
nine varieties of the noodles from
the market.
June 7: Manabi Bandyopadhyay
becomes the nations first openly
transgender college principal as she
takes charge at Krishnagar Womens
College in Kolkata.
June 10: The Madras High Court
dismisses petitions by Sun TV and
Kal Comm Pvt. Ltd. against attachJUNE
ment of assets by the ED in the AirJune 1: The Karnataka Cabinet cel-Maxis case.
K.V. Chowdhary takes oath as
CVC and Vijai Sharma is sworn in as
Chief Information Commissioner, in
New Delhi.
Neyveli Santhanagopalan (Carnatic vocal), Ashwini Bhide Deshpande (Hindustani vocal), Ronu
Majumdar (flute) among 36 artists
chosen for the Sangeet Natak
Awards for 2014.
June 12: Telangana announces
its maiden industrial policy with a
unique feature to cut delays Right
to Clearance, on the lines of RTI, in
Hyderabad.
Bollywood actor Shashi Kapoor.
N.L. Beno Zephine, a Chennai res-
ident becomes the first visually challenged to be selected for the IFS.
June 13: The Union Government
launches an Insurance pool of Rs.
1,500 crore mandatory under the
Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage
Act.
June 15: The Supreme Court cancels the All India Pre Medical and
Pre Dental Entrance Test held on
May 3, 2015 due to exam fraud.
Ex-servicemen launch an indefinite fast across the country seeking
implementation of the One Rank
One Pension scheme.
June 18: At least 102 people are
killed after consuming illicit liquor
at Malvani in Malad, Mumbai.
June 19: Mumbai comes to a
standstill following heavy torrential
rain measuring close to 300 mm over
24 hours.
June 21: Prime Minister Narendra Modi leads 35,985 people in
breaking the Guinness World Record for the largest number of people
doing Yoga at Rajpath, New Delhi on
the occasion of the first International Day of Yoga.
June 22: Thirtyseven persons
travel by the first commercial bus
service (Kolkata-Dhaka-Agartala)
which took off from Karunamayee
Stand in Salt Lake.
June 23: The Karnataka government files an SLP in the Supreme
Court against the acquittal of Tamil
JULY
July 1: Dignity of a woman is
part of her non-perishable and immortal self, holds the Supreme
Court ruling out room for compromise in rape cases.
The Black Money (Undisclosed
Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act comes into force.
July 2: Maharashtra decides to
label students of madrasas or vedic
schools uneducated.
The External Affairs Ministry reinstates IFS officer Devyani Khobragade and posts her to the newly
created States division.
July 4: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa takes oath as an
MLA at the Secretariat.
The mystery surrounding the Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh turns
murkier after Akshay Singh, a TV
journalist dies at Meghnagar area
near Jhabua town soon after interviewing the parents of an accused
who herself was found dead in 2012.
Ira Singhal from Delhi, becomes
the first physically challenged woman to top the Civil Services exam.
July 5: The Vyapam scamclaims
another victim, with Arun Sharma,
Dean of the Jabalpur-based Netaji
Subhas Chandra Bose Medical College, being found dead in a Delhi
hotel.
July 6: The Chennai Corporation
announces a major decision, permitting residents to build houses on
land of any size in the city.
The DMK challenges in the Su-
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AUGUST
Aug. 1: At least 14,854 people join
India after shedding a stateless existence for years in 51 Bangladesh
enclaves.
Aug. 3: The government signs a
peace deal with the NSCN (IM) in
New Delhi.
The flood toll in West Bengal goes
up to 69 and 2.1 lakh people sheltered in over 1,500 relief camps.
The Supreme Court dismisses the
appeals of the former Haryana Chief
Minister O.P Chautala, his son Ajay
Chautala and three others against
their conviction on January 16, 2013
SEPTEMBER
Sept.1: Three persons are killed
in police firing on a mob in Manipurs Churachandpur district as the
protests against the passage of bills
escalate.
Nine persons are sentenced to life
by a Special Court in Thiruvananthapuram for the August 21, 2009
murder of businessman Paul Muthoot George near Nedumudy in Keralas Alappuzha district.
M. M. Kalburgi.
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Fiftythree per cent voting is registered in the third phase of Bihar Assembly polls.
Oct. 29: The Delhi Declaration
2015, unveiled at the conclusion of
the India-Africa Forum Summit
calls for a global plan to combat
cross-border terrorism and faster
reform of the UNSC.
Oct. 30: Chandrabhan Sanap,
convicted of raping and murdering
techie Esther Anuhya is sentenced to
death by a special womens court in
Mumbai.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiling the plaque to lay the
Tamil Nadu Governor K. Rosaiah
foundation stone of Amaravati, the new capital of Andhra Pradesh. presents The Hindu Saregama M.S.
Subbulakshmi Award 2015 to S.
the 99th Constitutional Amendment. Adithyanarayanan, a mathematics
OCTOBER
Collegium system is operative again. student, in Chennai.
Over 55 per cent voting recorded
Oct. 3: Vishal, the son of a local
Oct. 31: Indias tallest person and
BJP leader accused of inciting a mob in the second phase of Bihar As- Asias second tallest, Kolipaka Gatto lynch Mohammed Akhlaque over sembly polls.
taiah, dies of heart attack while being
Oct. 17: National Blood Policy treated at a hospital in Hyderabad.
rumours of cow slaughter in Bishara
village in Dadri, Uttar Pradesh on modified. Blood banks can borrow
NOVEMBER
from one another in case of shortage.
September 28 is arrested.
Oct. 5: India and Germany agree
Oct. 19: The Gujarat police arNov. 1: Bihar registers 57.59 per
to form the Climate and Renewable rests Hardik Patel on sedition charg- cent turnout in phase IV of Assembly
Energy Alliance.
es in Rajkot.
polls.
Oct. 6: Maharashtra Cabinet deOct. 22: The Prime Minister NaNov. 3: A Fast Track court in New
cides to revive Ratnagiri Gas and rendra Modi lays the foundation for Delhi sentences to lifer Uber cab
Power Private Limited the erst- Amaravati, the Peoples Capital of driver Shiv Kumar Yadav for raping a
while Dabhol Power Project.
Andhra Pradesh at Uddandrayuni- woman executive on Dec. 5, 2014.
Eminent litterateur Nayantara palem on the banks of the Krishna
Haryana
drops
chargesheet
Sahgal returns her Sahitya Akademi between Vijayawada and Guntur.
against senior IAS officer Ashok
Oct. 23: The Sahitya Akademi , Khemka.
award in protest against the killing
Nov. 4: The collegium system is
of writer M.M. Kalburgi and ratio- passes resolution condemning the
killing of Kannada writer M. M. Kal- back and the CJI H. L. Dattu suggests
nalist Govind Pansare.
Oct. 8: The Bombay High Court burgi, at an emergency meeting in the name of Justice Tirath Singh
sets aside a tax demand of Rs. 3,700 New Delhi.
Thakur to be his successor.
crore imposed on Vodafone India by
Oct. 25: The Hindu group launchA special court in Mumbai frames
the IT authorities.
es the Sportstar digital edition in charges against Sayed Zabiuddin AnOct. 9: Noted writer Shashi Desh- Chennai.
sari alias Abu Jundal in the Novempande quits the Sahitya Akademi
Oct. 26: Geeta, a differently abled ber 26, 2008 serial terror strikes in
Council.
woman who had wandered across Mumbai.
Oct. 10: Poet K. Satchidanandan the India-Pakistan border in 2002
The Registrar of Societies in Tamil
and feminist writer Sara Joseph, and looked after by the Edhi Foun- Nadu cancels the registration of
both from Kerala quit Sahitya Aka- dation in Karachi arrives in New Greenpeace India as a society.
Nov. 5: The Supreme Court
demi and return awards.
Delhi.
The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet deA massive earthquake rocks north throws open the collegium system to
cides to rename Rajahmundry as India. Jammu and Kashmir badly public scrutiny.
A 19-year-old is raped in a moving
Rajamahendravaram.
hit.
Oct. 12: Fiftyseven per cent votNavy opens its doors to women bus in Bengaluru.
ing is recorded in phase I of Bihar pilots, who for the time being will be
Assembly polls.
shore-based.
Oct. 14: The government to begin
The Maharashtra Government
declassification of Netaji Subhas withdraws circular on sedition.
Oct. 27: The Gujarat High Court
Chandra Bose files from January 23,
upholds sedition charge against Pa2016.
Kerala plantation labour call off tel agitation leader Hardik Patel.
Oct. 28: Documentary film-makstir.
Oct. 15: The Supreme Court stays er Anand Patwardhan returns his
ban on the operation of dance bars in national award along with nine others in solidarity with the FTTI stuMumbai.
The Government cannot insist on dents who end their 139-day strike.
Facebooks Free Basics and Zero
production of Aadhar card, rules the
Rating did not violate Net neutrality,
Supreme Court.
Oct. 16: The Supreme Court re- says CEO Mark Zuckerburg in a
jects the National Judicial Appoint- town hall-style event on the IIT, DelGeeta.
ments Commission (NJAC) Act and hi campus.
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DECEMBER
Dec. 1: Chennai registers a record
29.4 cm rain and Tambaram 49 cm.
Dec. 2: The seven life-term convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case merit no hope of freedom,
holds the Supreme Court.
Dec. 3: Prime Minister, Narendra
Modi undertakes an aerial survey of
the rain-hit areas of Chennai and
announces an additional Rs. 1,000crore package.
Dec. 4: Eighteen patients are
killed between Dec. 2 and 3 at the
MIOT International in Manapakkam, Chennai following power failure after the hospital is flooded
owing to the Adyar river breaching
its banks.
Dec. 15: A CBI raid on the secretariat of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal triggers a political storm.
Sangita Kalanidhi M.S. Subbulakshmi Award is conferred on Carnatic vocalist Sanjay Subrahmanyan
at the Music Academy in Chennai.
Dec. 16: Appointment of priests
in Tamil Nadu temples as per Agamas not a violation of the right to
equality, rules the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court bans registration of luxury diesel vehicles in the
National Capital Region of Delhi up
to March 31, 2016.
The ISRO launches six Singapore
satellites from Sriharikota in Andhra
Pradesh.
The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet decides to appoint a judicial commission to probe call money sex racket.
Dec. 17: Tamil writer A. Madhavan is chosen for the 2015 Sahitya
Akademi award for his collected
prose writings Ilakkiya Chuvadukal.
BJP and rebel Congress MPs vote
out Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki and elect Kalikho
Pul. The Guwahati High Court stays
all decisions.
The Union Cabinet gives nod for
Rs. 40,000-crore defence deal.
Dec. 18: Mumbais Marine Drive,
completes 100 years.
Former Defence Secretary R.K.
Mathur is named new Chief Information Commissioner.
Dec. 19: A Delhi court grants conditional bail to Congress president
Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald
case.
Dec. 20: The youngest convict in
the December 16, 2012 Delhi gangrape is released and moved to the
care and protection of an NGO.
Dec. 21: A court in Rohtak sen- Tamil writer A. Madhavan.
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FEBRUARY
Feb. 1: Egypt deports Al-Jazeera
English reporter Peter Greste to
Australia after holding him for more
than 400 days on charges of backing
the Muslim Brotherhood.
Feb. 2: Moscow, Beijing back Indias entry into APEC. New Delhi
endorses the launch of the Free
Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific, at the
RIC trilateral in Beijing.
Feb. 3: British Parliament votes
to allow the creation of babies with
DNA from three people.
Feb. 4: Jordan executes Sajida alRishawi, a woman would-be suicide
bomber and Al-Qaeda member Ziad
al-Karboli in response to the burning alive of fighter pilot Maaz al-Kassasbeh by IS militants on Jan. 3.
Feb. 6: Houthi rebels take over
Yemen and dissolve Parliament.
Kayla-Jean Mueller, an American
aid worker held hostage by the IS is
killed in an airstrike in Syria.
An Indian, Sureshbhai Patel, is left
partially paralysed following police
action in the suburb of Huntsville, in
Madison, Alabama, the U.S.
Feb. 8: Coming-of-age drama
Boyhood bags the best film, best director for Richard Linklater and best
supporting actress for Patricia Arquette at the BAFTA 2015. The
Grand Budapest Hotel takes home
five trophies.
Musician Ricky Kej and activist
Neela Vaswani win honours for their
work in album Winds of Samsara and
the documentary on Malala Yousafzai at the 57th Annual Grammy
Awards in Los Angeles. The Stay
With Me fame singer Sam Smith
scoops four Grammy Awards.
Feb. 9: Nobel Laureate Amartya
Sen is chosen for the inaugural Charleston-EFG John Maynard Keynes
Prize.
Feb. 10: Three Muslim students
from one family are shot dead by
Craig Stephen Hicks, a self-described atheist in Chapel Hill, North
Carolina.
Feb. 11: More than 300 migrants
are feared drowned in the Mediterranean after their overcrowded
dinghies sink.
Feb. 12: Ukraine and pro-Moscow rebels announce ceasefire after
a summit in the Belarussian capital
Minsk.
Danish photographer Mads Nissens picture of a gay couple Jon and
Alex wins the World Press Photo
award.
Two Al-Jazeera journalists, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed
are freed from an Egyptian jail after
more than 400 days.
Feb. 14: A documentary filmmaker Finn Norgaard is killed after a
gunman fires on a caf in the Danish
capital Copenhagen as it hosted a
free speech event organised by
Swedish artist Lars Vilks who drew
cartoons caricaturing Prophet Mohamed.
Iranian dissident director Jafar
Panahis Taxi bags the Golden Bear
at the 65th Berlinale International
Film Festival. Best acting honours
goes to Charlotte Rampling and Tom
Courtenay for Andrew Haighs 45
Years. The Grand Jury Silver Bear is
bagged by Pablo Larrains The Club.
Feb. 22: Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritus dark comedy
Birdman bags Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original
Screenplay at the 87th Academy
Awards in Hollywood, California.
Eddie Redmayne gets Best Actor
award (The Theory of Everything).
Julianne Moore bags Best Actress
honours for role in Still Alice. Wes
Andersons The Grand Budapest Hotel wins four awards on its nine nominations.
Former Maldives President Mohammed Nasheed is arrested in Male
under anti-terrorism laws for allegedly ordering the arrest of a senior
judge in 2012 that triggered violence.
Feb. 23: Eurozone approves
Greek reforms plan.
MARCH
March 4: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
goes on trial in the April 15, 2013
Boston Marathon bombing case.
March 5: NASA scientists unveil
evidence of the existence of a massive ancient ocean that covered
APRIL
April 1: Palestine formally joins
the International Criminal Court at
a ceremony at the ICC headquarters
in The Hague.
April 2: The U.S., Iran and five
other world powers reach nuclear
accord after more than a decade of
negotiations
in
Lausanne,
Switzerland.
At least 148 students are killed after four gunmen of Somalias Shebab
Islamic group attack the Garissa
University College in Kenya.
April 3: Malli Mastan Babu, ace
Indian mountaineer is found dead in
the Andes mountain ranges in Chile,
South America.
April 5: CERN scientists restart
the Large Hadron Collider after a
two-year shutdown for a major refit.
April 9: The Lahore High Court
sets free Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi,
A survivor of an attack by
Islamist gunmen on a university
campus in Garissa, northern
Kenya is being comforted by a
colleague.
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dential run-off.
May 25: Bangladesh Cabinet ratifies the protocol on the Land
Boundary Agreement with India.
May 27: At least 80 people are
killed in Saudi-led air strikes near
Yemens border with Saudi Arabia
and in the capital Sanaa.
May 28: Indian-Americans Vanya Shivashankar and Gokul Venkatachalam are declared co-champions
of the 2015 Scripps National Spelling
Bee in National Harbor, Maryland.
May 29: The U.S. removes Cuba
from its blacklist as a state sponsor
of terrorism.
May 31: Solar Impulse 2 aircraft
piloted by Andre Borschberg leaves
Nanjing in China heading for Hawaii
on its 8,500 km flight.
Key provisions of the U.S.A. Patriot Act lapses without renewal by
Congress. NSA loses authority to
conduct bulk telephone data collection.
JUNE
June 1: Over 442 people are killed
after Eastern Star, a Chinese cruise
ship sinks in the Yangtze river in
Hubei provinces Jianli county, after
being caught in a storm.
Mauritius designates Ameenah
Gurib-Fakim as President, making
her the first woman to hold the
position.
Solar Impulse 2 is forced to land in
Nagoya, Japan.
June 2: Omar Hassan al-Bashir
begins new term as Sudan President.
The U.S. Senate passes and President Barack Obama signs into law
the NSA surveillance reform.
June 3: The Large Hadron Collider at the European Organisation for
Nuclear Research, Geneva restarts
with nearly doubled energy levels in
a key breakthrough.
June 5: Eight of the 10 men reportedly convicted and jailed for at-
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Barbara, California.
June 25: The U.S. Supreme Court
upholds the Affordable Care Act
(Obamacare law) passed in 2010 preserving health insurance for millions
of Americans.
At least 206 civilians are killed as
the IS rampages through the Kurdish town of Kobane, Syria.
June 26: At least 38 persons,
most of them British, are killed and
36 others wounded after a gunman
launches an assault on a hotel in the
Tunisian resort town of Sousse.
The seventh Parliament of Sri
Lanka is dissolved.
The Vatican signs a treaty with
Palestine granting it recognition.
June 27: The Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras calls a referendum
on austerity demands from foreign
creditors.
New York Police kill Richard
Matt, one of the two convicts on the
run since June 6.
The IS Jihadists destroy the famous limestone statue of the Lion of
al-Lat kept outside the museum in
Palmyra, Syria.
June 28: Second New York prison escapee David Sweat is shot at
and captured in the town of Constable near the Canadian border.
June 29: India and 49 other
founding members of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank sign
articles that determine each countrys share and lenders initial capital
at a ceremony at the Great Hall of the
People, Beijing.
Greece shuts down banks plunging the country into a deep crisis.
June 30: Greece defaults on a 1.5
billion euro ($1.7 billion) IMF loan,
the first by an advanced economy,
even as the current European bailout expires.
At least 142 people are feared
killed as an Indonesian air force
transport plane crashes in a residential area of Medan on the island of
Sumatra shortly after takeoff and
explodes.
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JULY
AUGUST
Aug. 1: Over 37,000 people of 111
former Indian enclaves measuring
7,110 acres become Bangladeshi citizens after 68 years of statelessness.
Aug. 5: Over 200 people are
feared drowned after an overcrowded fishing boat carrying 600 migrants capsizes off Libya.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib
Razak confirms that plane debris
found in Reunion Island is from
MH370 that crashed 17 months ago.
Aug. 7: Bangladeshi secular blogger Niloy Chatterjee Neel is hacked
to death at his home in Dhaka.
At least 27 recruits are killed after
a suicide bomber strikes outside the
gates of a police academy in Kabul.
Fifteen others die and 240 wounded
in a massive truck bomb attack near
a government complex.
Colorado theatre shooter James
Holmes is sentenced to lifer for the
2012 assault that left 12 dead and 70
injured.
Aug. 10: Chennai-born Sundar
Pichai is named chief executive officer of Google.
Aug. 11: Greece and its international lenders reach a multi-billion
euro bailout agreement in Athens.
China devalues the yuan, also
known as renminbi, by 1.9 per cent,
the largest such move in two
decades.
Aug. 12: At least 121 persons are
killed and 720 injured in massive
explosions at a warehouse in Binhai
New Area in the Chinese Port city of
Tianjin.
Aug. 13: At least 76 people are
killed and 212 wounded in a truck
bombing at a market in the Iraqi
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SEPTEMBER
Sept. 2: The EU refugee crisis
deepens. Three members of a Syrian
family, including Alan Kurdi, his
brother Galib and mother Rehana
drown after their boat sinks near Bodrum, Turkey.
Sept. 3: Tamil National Alliance
leader R. Sampanthan becomes the
first Tamil lawmaker to become the
Leader of the Opposition in Sri Lanka in 32 years.
Sept. 5: Austria and Germany
throw open their borders to Syrian
refugees.
Sept. 6: Austria plans to reimpose
border controls.
The IMF MD Christine Lagarde
launches Womens 20 (W-20), the
grouping of women leaders from the
worlds 20 largest economies in Ankara, Turkey.
Sept. 7: Germany pledges 6 billion towards providing housing to
asylum seekers. Receives 20,000 refugees over the weekend. A record
number of 7,000 Syrians reach
Macedonia.
Sept. 8: Pope Francis makes it
easier for Roman Catholics to secure
divorce.
Sept. 9: Russia begins taking part
in operations in support of Syria.
Sept. 10: The U.S. Senate votes to
uphold the nuclear accord with Iran.
Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez is jailed for 14 years for
inciting violence during protests in
February 2014.
Sept. 11: At least 115 people, including 11 Indians are killed and 184
injured after a construction crane
crashes into the Grand Mosque in
Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
Singapores ruling Peoples Action
Party wins a sweeping victory in
snap parliamentary polls.
Sept. 12: Veteran socialist and
eight-time MP Jeremy Corbyn is
elected leader of Britains Labour
Party.
Desde Alla (From Afar), a debut
feature by Venezuelan director Lorenzo Vigas bags the Golden Lion for
best film at the Venice Film Festival.
The Silver Lion for best director goes
to Argentinas Pablo Trapero for The
Clan.
Sept. 13: Germany reinstates border controls to stem the current influx of refugees.
Thirtyfour persons, among them
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hundreds of prisoners.
Scientists find evidence of salt water in liquid form on Mars.
India and the U.S. ink a $ 3 billion
defence deal.
Cesare Tavella, an Italian aid
worker is shot dead in Bangladesh
capital Dhakas diplomatic quarter.
Sept. 30: Russia launches air
strikes in Syria after the Duma gives
nod for use of force abroad.
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Polands eurosceptic Law and Justice Party crushes the pro-EU ruling
party.
Oct. 28: Nepals Parliament
elects communist lawmaker Bidhya
Bhandari as the countrys first woman President.
Oct. 29: China ends its one-child
policy.
Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in
jail for insulting Islam, is awarded
the European Parliaments Sakharov
human rights prize.
Oct. 30: President Barack Obama
decides to send limited number of
troops to Syria.
Shaker Aamer, a high-profile detainee is freed from the Guantanamo
Bay after nearly 14 years.
Oct. 31: All 224 on board a Russian plane are killed after it breaks
up mid-air and crashes into a mountainous area of Egypts Sinai Peninsula, shortly after takeoff.
Faisal Arefin Dipan, a Bangladeshi
publisher is hacked to death in Dhaka.
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
Dec. 2: Pakistan hangs four men
linked to the Peshawar school massacre on December 16, 2014.
Britain begins bombing Syria after
getting Parliament nod.
At least 14 people are shot dead
and 22 wounded in an attack on a
holiday party at a social services centre in San Bernardino, California by
a Muslim couple. After a police manhunt, the duo killed in a shootout.
Dec. 3: A South African appeals
court convicts double amputee
Olympian Oscar Pistorius of murder
for shooting girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp to death in 2013.
Dec. 6: Venezuelas ruling Socialist Party is crushed in polls.
Dec. 8: Taliban militants storm
the airport in Afghanistans Kandahar city, triggering pitched gun battles that leave 50 dead and 35
injured.
Dec. 9: India and Pakistan decide
to resume talks seven years after the
26/11 Mumbai attacks.
U.S. Magazine Time names German Chancellor Angela Merkel as its
Person of the Year 2015.
Dec. 10: Mauricio Macri is sworn
in Argentinas President.
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OBITUARY
JANUARY
Jan. 2: Vasant Ranchhod Gowarikar (81), who played a key role in
Indias space programme, in Pune .
Jan. 4: Adusumilli Janardhana
Vara Prasad (57), Telugu actor, in
Hyderabad.
Jan. 7: B.S. Abdur Rahman (88),
educationist and founder of B.S. Abdur Rahman University, at Apollo
Hospitals in Chennai.
Jan. 11: Anita Ekberg (83), best
known for her performance in the
iconic 1960 movie La Dolce Vita in
Italy, in Rome.
Jan. 19: Rajni Kothari (86), eminent scholar and political scientist,
in New Delhi.
Anne Kirkbride (60), Coronation
Street star who played Deirdre Barlow, at a Manchester hospital.
Jan. 24: V.S. Raghavan (90), veteran Tamil film and theatre actor, in
Chennai .
Jan. 26: R.K. Laxman (93), legendary cartoonist of a cardiac arrest
at Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital,
in Pune.
Jan. 27: Charles H. Townes (99),
legendary physicist and Nobel laureate whose brainchild is the laser, at
Oakland, California.
Jan. 29: Subhash Ghisingh (80),
Gorkhaland movement leader, at Sir
Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi.
Rajni Kothari
V.S. Raghavan
MARCH
March 7: G. Karthikeyan (66),
Kerala Assembly Speaker, of multiorgan failure at a Bengaluru hospital.
March 8: Vinod Mehta (73),
founding editor of Outlook of multiple organ failure in New Delhi.
March 9: Deepak Khaitan (59),
industrialist in Kolkata, of cancer.
March 12: Terry Pratchett (66),
British author, in London after a
long battle with Alzheimers disease.
March 20: John Malcolm Fraser
(84), former Australian Prime Minister in Melbourne.
March 31: S.R. Patil (94), veteran
Congress leader and freedom fighter
in Bengaluru.
APRIL
Jagmohan
Dalmiya
N. Ramani
R. K. Laxman
Gunter Grass
AUGUST
Aug. 9: Kayyara Kinhanna Rai
(100), Kannada poet and freedom
fighter, at his residence in Badiyaddka in Keralas Kasaragod district.
Aug. 22: Ieng Thirith (83), the
most powerful woman in the Khmer
Rouge, in Pailin, Cambodia.
Aug. 30: Wes Craven (76), who
directed the slasher classic A Nightmare on Elm Street, of brain cancer
at his home in Los Angeles.
SEPTEMBER
Gopulu
Christopher Lee
Manorama
M.A.M.
Ramaswamy
Sharad Joshi
V.S. Malimath
Sadhana
Haskell Wexler
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air rifle gold in the International during the one-off test against India
shooting championship held at at Fatullah.
Hannover.
June 14: India draws the one-off
West Indies wins the third and fi- test against Bangladesh held at
JANUARY
nal test to level the series 1-1 against Fatullah.
England at Bridgetown.
Jan. 11: Stan Wawrinka wins AirJune 16: Golden State Warriors
cel Chennai Open.
May 5: Stuart Bingham wins his captures its first NBA title beating
Railways wins both the mens and
maiden world title beating Shaun Cleveland Cavaliers at Cleveland.
June 18: Left-arm seamer Mustawomens National volleyball titles in
Murphy in the final of the World
Chennai.
Championship snooker at Sheffield. fizur Rahman takes a five-wicket haul
Jan. 12: Cristiano Ronaldo wins
May 6: Chris Gayle scores his 14th in his debut ODI as Bangladesh beats
Ballon dOr.
T20 ton, the fastest of IPL 2015, India at Mirpur.
Jan. 14: PSBB wins both mens
June 19: England wins the fifth
against Kings XI Punjab that saw him
and womens team titles at table tenbecome the first overseas player to and final ODI against New Zealand at
nis Nationals in Puducherry.
Durham to clinch the five-match seget to 3000 runs in the league.
Jan. 17: Soumyajit Ghosh and
May 9: Pakistan wins the test se- ries 3-2.
Mouma Das win the mens and womries against Bangladesh 1-0 at Dhaka.
June 21: Leg-spinner Yasir Shah
ens National table tennis singles tiEthiopian legend Haile Gebrselas- claims a career-best seven for 76 in
tles respectively in Puducherry.
sie announces his retirement from tests as Pakistan beats Sri Lanka at
Pankaj Advani wins the mens Nacompetitive running.
Galle.
May 16: India wins the SAARC
tional billiards championship in
Mustafizur Rahman becomes the
Golf Championship.
Kolkata.
second bowler after Vitori to record
Jan. 22: Arantxa Sanchis wins the
May 17: China clinches its sixth five-for performances in the first two
womens National billiards title in
consecutive title in the Sudirman ODIs as Bangladesh beats India at
Kolkata.
Cup badminton defeating Japan in Mirpur.
Jan. 24: Pankaj Advani and Amee
June 24: Bangladesh clinches the
the final.
Kanmani win the mens and womens
May 22: International cricket re- three-match home ODI series
APRIL
National snooker titles respectively
turns to Pakistan after six years with against India 2-1.
Apr. 10: Former Australia captain its T20 clash against Zimbabwe at
in Kolkata.
England wins the lone T20I
Jan. 25: P. Kashyap and Saina Richie Benaud passes away in Sydney Lahore.
against New Zealand held at
Nehwal win the mens and womens aged 84.
May 24: Mumbai Indians beats Manchester.
Apr. 13: Sania Mirza climbs to the Chennai Super Kings in the final to
June 26: Satnam Singh Bhamara
singles crowns respectively at the
becomes the first Indian to be drafted
Syed Modi India Masters badminton top of the tennis doubles rankings.
emerge champion of IPL 2015.
May 29: Sepp Blatter wins a fifth by an NBA team - Dallas Mavericks.
Jordan Spieth wins Augusta Golf
tournament in Lucknow.
term as President of FIFA.
Jan. 31: Serena Williams wins the Masters.
June 28: Indian shuttlers Jwala
May 30: Alastair Cook becomes Gutta and Ashwini Ponappa win the
Australian Open womens singles
Apr 18: India beats Philippines
England's all-time leading test run- Canada open women's doubles title
title.
2-1 in Fed Cup in Hyderabad.
scorer during the second test against upstaging the Dutch pair of Eefie
MAY
FEBRUARY
New Zealand at Headingley.
Muskens and Selena piek at Calgary.
Feb. 1: Novak Djokovic bags the
Tamim Iqbal scores Bangladesh's
June 30: Abhijeet Gupta and PadJUNE
Australian Open mens singles best individual test score of 206 in
mini Rout win the men's and womJune 1: New Zealand cricket team en's titles in the Commonwealth
crown.
the second innings of the drawn first
captain Brendon McCullum and chess Championship held at New
Feb. 5: B. Sai Praneeth and Ruth- test against Pakistan at Khulna.
coach Mike Hesson are appointed Delhi.
vika Shivani emerge the mens and
Officers of the New Zealand Order of
womens singles champions at the
JULY
Merit (NZOM).
National Badminton Championships
Chile defeats Argentina in the final
Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman
in Vijaywada.
Feb. 8: Anirban Lahiri wins Maand Sourav Ganguly are drafted into to win Copa America after 99 years.
July 6: Carli Lloyd becomes the
laysian Open golf tournament.
the the BCCI advisory committee.
Feb. 16: Yuvraj Singh picked up
June 2: Sepp Blatter resigns as first woman to score a hat-trick in a
world cup final inspiring the United
by Delhi Daredevils for a record Rs.
FIFA President.
June 4: Umpire S. Ravi is induct- States to its third football World cup
16 crore fee at the IPL auction in
ed into the ICC Elite panel of title.
Bengaluru.
Feb. 19: Viswanathan Anand wins
umpires.
Zurich Chess Classical title.
June 6: Serena Williams wins her
Anirban Lahiri wins Indian Open THE AUSSIE SPIRIT: The
20th Grand slam and third French
golf tournament.
open title defeating Lucie Safarova in
Australian cricket team with
the final.
the World Cup.
MARCH
Rahul Dravid is appointed coach of
Mar. 8: Saina Nehwal loses to
May 3: American boxer Floyd the India 'A' and u-19 teams.
Carolina Marin in the singles final at Mayweather Jr. wins the richest bout
Barcelona wins the UEFA Chamthe All England badminton Cham- in boxing history defeating Filipino pions League beating Juventus in the
pionships in Birmingham.
Manny Pacquiao in the welterweight final at Berlin.
Mar. 12: Karnataka retains Ranji unification championship clash held
June 7: Stanisla Wawrinka wins
Trophy title after defeating Tamil at MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas.
his second Grand slam and first A PODIUM FINISH, FINALLY: The
Nadu in the final in Mumbai.
Chelsea takes the English Premier French open title defeating Novak Indian hockey team which won
Mar. 14: Welshman Michael League title with 83 points from 35 Djokovic in the final.
White defeats Englands Ricky Wal- games.
June 13: Tamim Iqbal becomes a medal (bronze) after a 33-year
den to win the Indian Open snooker
May 4: Abhinav Bindra wins the Bangladesh's leading test run-scorer wait in a world-level event.
SPORT
championship in Mumbai.
Mar. 15: Xu Xin of China and Feng
Tianwei of Singapore win the mens
and womens singles title at Asian
Cup table tennis tournament at
Jaipur.
Mar. 20: Karnataka defeats Rest
of India to retain the Irani Cup in
Bengaluru.
Mar. 26: Indias World Cup campaign ends, following a 95-run defeat
to Australia in the semifinals in
Sydney.
Mar. 29: Australia wins its fourth
World Cup crown after beating New
Zealand by seven wickets in the final
at Melbourne.
Michael Clarke retires from ODI
cricket.
Saina Nehwal wins the womens
singles title at the Indian Open badminton tournament in New Delhi
and climbs to the top of world rankings.
K. Srikanth bags the mens singles
crown.
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THE HINDU
THE HINDU
third grand slam in 2015 beating RogThe pair of Sania Mirza and Martier Federer 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 to clinch na Hingis wins the doubles titles in
his second US Open title.
Singapore beating Garbine MuguruSania Mirza & Martina Hingis za & Carla Suarez Navarro 6-0, 6-3.
wins the US Open womens doubles
Nov. 6: R. Ashwin becomes the
title beating Casey Dellacqua & Ya- fastest Indian to take 150 wickets in
roslava Shvedova 6-3, 6-3.
his 29th Test match on the second day
Australia defeats England by eight against South Africa in Mohali.
wickets in the fifth ODI match to win
Nov. 11: Younis Khan retires from
the series 3-2 at Manchester.
ODIs.
Sept. 20: India loses to Czech ReNov. 17: Mitchell Johnson retires
public in the Davis Cup World Group from international cricket at the end
play off in New Delhi.
of the second Test against New ZealBCCI President Jagmohan Dalmi- and in Perth.
Nov. 20: England beats Pakistan
ya passes away aged 75 in Kolkata.
Sept. 22: Former Indian football- by 84 runs in the fourth ODI in Dubai
er Prashanta Sinha. member of the to clinch the series 3-1.
Nov. 21: Pankaj Advani wins the
1962 Asian Games gold medal-winning squad passes away aged 77 in IBSF world snooker title in Hurghada, Egypt.
Kolkata.
INDIAS PRIDE: Saina Nehwal,
Sept. 27: Pankaj Advani wins the
Nov. 22: Novak Djokovic defeats
who won two international
IBSF World Billiards championship Roger Federer 6-3, 6-4 to win the
titles, ended the year at No. 2 in
in Adelaide, Australia.
ATP Tour Finals in London.
the World.
Nov. 29: Britain clinches the DaFormer England fast bowler Frank
Tyson passes away aged 85 in vis Cup for the first time in 79 years
beating Belgium 3-1 in Ghent.
mans the new coach of the national
Australia.
Australia beats New Zealand by
men's hockey team.
July 26: Chris Froome wins his
OCTOBER
three wickets to win the first dayOct. 4: Shashank Manohar takes night Test in Adelaide and win the
second Tour de France title.
over as the BCCI President for the series 2-0.
July 28: Clive Rice, South Africa's
second time following the demise of
first cricket captain of the post-isolaBritain's Tyson Fury is crowned as
SEPTEMBER
Jagmohan Dalmiya.
tion era passes away.
the new heavyweight champion beatSept. 1: India beats Sri Lanka by
Oct. 8: India lose the T20 series to ing Wladimir Klitschko in Berlin.
AUGUST
117 runs in the third Test at Colombo South Africa 2-0 after the third
Aug. 3: Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom
DECEMBER
and wins the series 2-1; R. Ashwin match is washed out in Kolkata.
wins the women's 100m butterfly
Oct. 10: Poland defeats Sweden to
Dec. 6: India settles for bronze
named Man of the Series.
Sept. 5: Apurvi Chandela wins sil- lift the Bermuda Bowl title in the after beating Netherlands on penalgold with a new world record timing;
ver in the 10m air rifle at the shooting 42nd World Bridge Championship ties in the World Hockey League
Adam Peaty becomes the first Briton
World Cup in Munich.
to become world champion in 40 ELOQUENT SOUTHPAW: Kumar
held in Chennai.
tournament in Raipur.
Sept. 12: Flavia Pennetta wins the
Oct. 18: Jayanta Talukdar and
Dec. 7: India defeats South Africa
years in the men's 100m Sangakkara, who retired from
US Open womens singles beating
Deepika Kumari by 337 runs in the fourth Test at
breaststroke.
all forms of cricket.
Aug. 4: Katie Ledecky of the USA
compatriot Roberta Vinci 7-6 (4),
wins the mens Delhi to clinch the series 3-0.
wins the women's 1500m freestyle the
Dec. 8: Pune and Rajkot are two
and womens reWorld
Badminton 6-2.
gold with a new world record timing. Championships.
The pair of Leander Paes & Marticurve title re- new cities to replace Chennai and
Aug. 6: Ryan Lochte of the USA
Aug. 16: Australia's Jason Day na Hingis wins the US Open mixed
spectively in the Rajasthan in the IPL following Chenwins the U.S. PGA Golf Champion- doubles title beating the pair of Sam
national
ar- nai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royship with a record 20-under par total. Querrey & Bethanie Mattek-Sands
chery
cham- als suspension from the league for
Saina Nehwal wins World Badmin- 6-4, 3-6, 10-7.
pionships
in two years.
Dec. 17: Chelsea sacks manager
ton Championships silver after losNarsingh Yadav wins the bronze
Meerut.
Oct. 20: Vi- Jose Mourinho.
ing to Carolina Marina in the final at medal in the World wrestling chamrender Sehwag
Dec. 20: Chennaiyin FC beats FC
Jakarta.
pionship at Las Vegas and secures his
Aug. 19: Britain's Sebastian Coe berth for 2016 Olympics in Rio de ADMINISTRATOR announces his Goa 3-2 to win the second edition of
NON-PAREIL:
becomes the new President of the Janeiro.
retirement
the ISL.
Sept. 13: Novak Djokovic wins his Jagmohan
Dec. 21: FIFA bans Sepp Blatter
International Association of Athletfrom internaand Michel Platini for eight years for
ics Federations.
Dalmiya, former tional cricket.
Aug. 23: Jamaican sprinter Usain
Oct.
25: ethics violations.
BCCI President
THE MONARCH OF SPRINT: Usain Bolt
South
Africa
wins his third consecutive men's
who passed
Bolt of Jamaica proved hes the 100m gold at the World Athletics
beats India by
away in
best winning the 100 & 200m
214 runs in the
Championships in Beijing.
Kolkata.
World Championship titles.
fifth and final
Australia posts a consolatory win
ODI in Mumbai
against England in the fifth and final
makes history by becoming the first Ashes test at The Oval as Aussie skipto clinch the bilateral series 3-2.
man to win the 200m individual me- per Michael Clarke retires from InLewis Hamilton wins the US GP in
dley for the fourth consecutive time ternational cricket; England takes
Texas and clinches his third title.
at the World Aquatics Champion- the series 3-2.
AT THE TOP: Sania Mirza and
ONE FOR THE CITY: Chennaiyin
ships in Kazan; Katie Ledecky wins
NOVEMBER
U Mumba beats Bengaluru Bulls at
Nov. 1: Agnieszka Radwanska FC, which won the second
her fourth gold, winning the wom- Mumbai to claim the ProKabaddi Martina Hingis, who ended the
year as No. 1 in womens
beats Petra Kvitova to win the WTA edition of ISL, dedicated the
en's 4x200m freestyle title.
League title.
Finals title in Singapore.
Aug. 7: Bahrain schoolgirl Alzain
Aug. 24: Former Sri Lanka cricket doubles.
Trophy to the people of Chennai.
July 20: BCCI drops Duleep trophy from the domestic calendar for
the 2015-16 season.
July 25: A sessions court in New
Delhi discharges 36 accused, including cricketers S. Sreesanth, Ajit
Chandila and Ankeet Chavan in the
IPL spot-fixing case of 2013.
Hockey India names Roelant Olt-
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