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million plus Sri Lankan voters cast ballots in presidential polls. Jan. 27: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa is re-elected for a second term. Bangladesh executes the ve convicted killers of the nations founding President Sheikh Mujibur Rehman (on August 15,1975) at Dhakas Central Prison. Jan. 29: China unveils a new draft law on land acquisitions. Jan. 31: A.R. Rahman wins two Grammy awards for his song Jai Ho and outstanding soundtrack for the lm Slumdog Millionaire at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. Beyonce wins six trophies, including best female pop vocal for Halo becoming the most decorated woman on a Grammy night. Taylor Swift bags four awards, including the Album of the year, for her best-selling Fearless. FEBRUARY Feb. 1: The U.S. President Barack Obama unveils a $ 3.83 trillion budget. At least 46 persons one killed and over 122 injured as a woman suicide bomber detonates an explosives belt while walking among a group of pilgrims on their way to Karbala in Iraq. Feb. 3: Twentythree persons are killed and 147 injured as a blast rips through a crowd of Shia pilgrims on the outskirts of Karbala, Iraq. Feb. 5: A landmark deal is clinched by Northern Irelands major political parties, the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Fein paving the way for grant of full autonomy to the province envisaged in the 1998 Good Friday agreement. Feb. 7: Ukrainians cast ballots in the bitterly fought presidential run off. Laura Chinchilla is elected the rst woman President of Costa Rica by a landslide. Feb. 8: Sri Lankas former Army Chief and Opposition presidential candidate General (Retired) Sarath Fonseka detained for committing militant offences. Viktor Yanukovych wins Ukraine presidential polls narrowly beating Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Feb. 9: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa dissolves Parliament. Feb. 11: Flamboyant British fashion designer Alexandar McQueen is found dead at his home in Central London. Iran, a nuclear state, says the President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a mammoth rally in Tehran. Feb. 12: Podila Gopi Kumar an Indian-American professor and two others are killed after Amy Bishop, a neurobiologist opens re at a faculty meeting at the University of Alabama at Huntsville.

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JANUARY Jan. 1: Ninety-Five people are killed in a suicide attack during a volleyball match in Shah Hassan Khel in Lakki Marwat district in Pakistans North West Frontier Province. Jan. 2: Afghanistans Parliament rejects 17 of President Hamid Karzais 24 nominees for a new Cabinet. Nitin Garg, an Indian youth is stabbed to death in Melbourne, Australia. Jan. 4: Burj Dubai, the worlds tallest tower at 818 Metres (2,684 feet), is opened by Dubais ruler Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid al Maktoum. Jan. 6: A U.S. Grand Jury indicts Nigerian youth Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab over a plot to blow up a plane with 290 aboard on Christmas Day as it approached Detroit, Michigan. Jan. 11: Editor and veteran Tamil journalist J.S.Tissainayagam sentenced to 20-years RI by the High Court of Colombo is granted bail pending appeal by the Appeal Courts.

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Martin Scorsese is presented the Cecil B.DeMille lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes. Billionaire Sebastian Pinera is elected Chile President after winning a run-off vote. An Iraqi court sentences to death Ali Hassan al-Majid widely known as Chemical Ali for a 1988 gas attack that killed 5,000 people. Jan. 18: Taliban gunmen launch an assault on Afghanistan capital Kabul with suicide bombers blowing themselves up at different locations. A fourteen-member Cabinet is sworn in amidst the violence. Mehmet Ali Agca who shot at Pope

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Feb. 14: Viktor Yanukovych is ofcially declared winner in the Ukrainian presidential polls. Feb. 19: Roman Polanski wins the best director award (Silver Bear) at the 60th Berlin Film Festival for his political thriller, The Ghost writer. The

militant group is arrested after authorities force his plane to land at the southern port city of Bandar Abbas. Feb. 24: Dawn Brancheau, a trainer at The Sea World USA Marine Park, Orlando is drowned by a 12,000 pound killer whale Tilikum during the Shamu Whale Show. Feb. 25: Victor Yanukovych is sworn in Ukraines President. Feb. 26: Six Indians and 10 others are killed in coordinated suicide attacks by the Taliban at two hotels in the Afghanistan capital Kabul. Tabla player Nawab Khan part of an ICCR troupe and Major Jotin Laishram, a gifted doctor among dead. Feb. 27: Seven hundred people are killed as an earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale rocks. Chile setting off a tsunami. Feb. 28: The tsunami triggered by the Chile earthquake hits Japans

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Jan. 12: At least 230,000 people are killed and 300,000 more injured after a powerful 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastates the Caribbean nation of Haiti. The capital Port-au-Prince bears the brunt. The Presidential palace and Parliament building collapse. The head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission, Tunisian Hedi Annabi among dead. The U.N. headquarters wrecked. Jan. 14: The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Hakimullah Mehsud is feared killed in an air strike in North Waziristan. A federal grand jury in Chicago indicts Pakistan-American Jihadist David Coleman Headley and his Canadian accomplice Tahawwur Rana for their role in organising recce operations before the November 2008 Mumbai attack. Jan. 15: Russia raties European Human Rights Convention. Jan. 16: The U.S. President Barack Obama pitches bank tax. Jan. 17: Ukrainians cast ballots in presidential polls. James Camerons science ction blockbuster Avatar fetches for him Best Drama and Best Director at the 67th annual Golden Globes Awards in Beverly Hills, California. Meryl Streep gets Best Actress award for www.jeywin.com Julie & Julia.

John Paul II on May 13, 1981 in St.Peters Square, Rome is freed after spending 29 years behind bars. Jan. 19: British chocolate bar maker Cadbury is bought by U.S. giThe Burj Dubai, the worlds tallest building, in Dubai, United Arab ant Kraft Foods in a $19 billion deal Emirates. ending more than 180 years of Golden Bear is bagged by a Turkish main islands and the shores of Rushistory. family drama Bal (Honey) by direc- sia. In a major upset, Republican Scott tor Semih Kaplanoglu. India and Saudi Arabia sign an ExBrown wins the Massachusetts SenFeb. 20: Kathryn Bigelows Iraq tradition Treaty and the Agreement ate seat held by Edward Kennedy for war movie The Hurt Locker sweeps for the Transfer of Sentenced Pernearly half a century defeating the the BAFTAs picking up six gongs out sons in Riyadh after talks between state Attorney General Martha of eight she was nominated for. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Coakley. Feb. 23: Abdolmalek Rigi, leader and King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz. Top Hamas Commander MahMARCH of Jundallah, a high-prole anti-Iran moud al-Mabhouh is assassinated in March 1: The Prime Minister his hotel room in Dubai by an 11Manmohan Singh addresses the member hit team. Jan. 21: The U.S. Supreme Court Shura Council and is conferred an lifts a 63-year-old ban on corporate honorary doctorate by the King Saud funds for U.S. federal elections. Ban University. March 3: The Ukrainian Parliaon paid issue ads too goes. Jan. 22: U.S. astronaut Timothy ment passes a no-condence motion TJ Creamer aboard the Internavoting out the Yulia Tymoshenko tional Space Station becomes the Cabinet. March 5: The U.S. House of Reprst person to tweet live from space. Jan. 25: Ninety people aboard an resentatives passes the Hiring InEthiopian Airlines plane are killed centive to Restore Employment Act, after it catches re and crashes into a jobs bill of $15 billion. March 7: Iraq war drama The sea shortly after takeoff from Beirut. Hurt Locker bags the Best Picture Ali Hasan al-Majid widely known Oscar at the 82nd Academy Awards as Chemical Ali is hanged in Iraq in Los Angeles. Kathryn Bigelow befor the 1988 poison gas attacks which Haitians walk past quake damaged buildings in the capital Portcomes the rst woman to be awarded killed more than 5,000 Kurds. Dream Sandra Bullock gets Jan. 26: Over 70 per cent of the 14 au-Prince. Best Director.Dare Win

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The U.S. President Barack Obama signs into law the $17.5 billion Hiring Incentive to Restore Employment Act (the HIRE Act). March 19: Atom Smasher sets record as beams of protons circulate at 3.5 trillion electron volts in both directions around the 27 km tunnel housing the Large Hadron Collider under the Swiss-French border at Geneva. March 20: Girija Prasad Koirala (86), Nepals ve-time Prime Minister, freedom ghter and political hero dies at his daughters house in Kathmandu. A volcano under a glacier in Iceland erupts after almost 200 years . Oscar, a Spanish man undergoes the worlds rst full face transplant at a Barcelona hospital. March 21: The U.S. House of Representatives passes the Senate version of the healthcare reform bill by a narrow but rm margin of 219212. March 22: Tejdeep Singh Rattan becomes the rst turbaned Sikh in a generation to join the U.S. Army. March 24: The Abel Prize for Mathematics for 2010 is awarded to American Mathematician John Torrence Tate for his work in Algebraic Number Theory. March 25: The former premier Iyad Allawis secular Iraqiya bloc wins Iraq polls. March 26: Fortysix South Korean sailors aboard warship Cheonan are killed in a torpedo attack by North Korea in the Yellow Sea waters. March 29: Forty persons are killed and 70 injured as women suicide bombers blow themselves up at two Metro stations Lubyanka and Park Kultury in the Russian capital Moscow. March 30: Scientists at the European Centre for Nuclear Research near Geneva smash proton beams into each other with record energy at April 10: Polish President Lech Kaczynski and a high level delegation are killed after a plane carrying 97 persons crashes in thick fog near the Smolensk airport in western Russia. Poland declares a weeks ofcial mourning. French doctor and explorer JeanLouis Etienne makes the rst Arctic crossing aboard his balloon the Generali Arctic Observer after taking off from the Norwegian archipelago of Spitzbergen on April 5. April 11: Voting begins in Sudans national election. April 12: British-Indian author Rana Dasgupta wins the Commonwealth Writers Prize for 2010 for his epic tale Solo. Australian Glenda Guests Siddon Rock adjudged Best First Book. April 13: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announces Indias decision to set up a Global Centre for Nuclear Energy partnership at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington. April 14: At least 600 people are killed and more than 10,000 injured as a 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes a remote border area in Chinas Qinghai province. Yushu county in a Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture bordering Siachen is the epicentre. A 5,466-foot volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland erupts spewing smoke and steam into the air. April 15: The U.S. and Russia announce a plutonium elimination deal. Russia shuts down its last weapons-grade plutonium reactor near the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk. The volcanic eruption in Iceland creates massive ash cloud disrupting ight services in Europe. Pakistan Senate passes the 18th

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Best Actress Award (The Blind Side) Jeff Bridges strikes gold in the Best Actor category. Voters cast ballots in Iraqs second parliamentary election amid widespread violence which claims 35 lives. March 9: The Israeli government gives nod for the building of 1,600 new settlement homes in occupied East Jerusalem. March 10: An American woman Colleen R. LaRose a.k.a. Jihad Jane is indicted for her bid to wage a violent jihad in South Asia and Europe. March 11: Myanmar promulgates new poll laws targeting democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi. March 12: Sebastian Pinera is sworn in Chile President. March 14: Katie Spotz (22) becomes the youngest person to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean and the rst American to row a boat without help from mainland to mainland. She left on January 3 from Dakar, Senegal. March 15: Indian born British Labour MP Ashok Kumar (53) is found dead at his home in Middlesbrough, north east England. March 16: Courtmartial proceedings against the former Sri Lanka Army Chief General (Retd.) Sarath Fonseka for alleged role in politics while in uniform begins in Colombo. Double Falsehood, a play of disputed authorship is found actually to be a version of Shakespeares longlost play Cardenio. March 18: Pakistan-American LeT operative David Coleman Headley accused of plotting the Mumbai terror attacks pleads guilty on all 12 counts before a U.S. court in Lech Kaczynski Chicago.

a nano-fraction of a second slower than the speed of light using the Large Hadron Collider. March 31: Mauritius Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam dissolves the 70-member National Assembly and calls for elections on May 5. Belgium votes to ban veils. APRIL April 2: A report of the Committee on Constitutional Reforms is tabled in Pakistan National Assembly. April 5: The Discovery space shuttle blasts off from NASAs Kennedy Space Centre in Florida with seven astronauts, including three women mission specialists on a 13day mission aboard the International Space Station. April 6: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announces general elections for May 6. April 7: Kyrgyzstan President Kurmanbek Bakiyev ees the nation after two days of violent mass protests leaves 75 killed and 400 injured. Prime Minister Daniyar Usenov quits. A Cabinet of peoples trust headed by Opposition leader Roza Otunbayeva in place. India and China sign an agreement to set up a hotline between Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Wen Jiabao, after talks in Beijing. Thailand Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva promulgates emergency following a brief gate crash by protesters at the Parliament premises. April 8: Low turnout in Sri Lankan parliamentary polls. Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev sign a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty at a meeting in Prague. Pakistan National Assembly passes the 18th Amendment Bill that seeks to bring back the 1973 Constitution. April 9: President Rajapaksa-led ruling alliance in Sri Lanka records A fresh cloud of ash rises from the volcano under the an emphatic win in polls. Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland.

Amendment seeking to strip the presidency of its powers and restore them to Parliament. Deposed President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiyev steps down after earlier leaving the country for the neighbouring Kazakhastan. April 18: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari signs the 18th Amendment Bill restoring parliamentary democracy. Panel orders recount of votes cast in Baghdad during the March 7 Iraqi election. April 20: Shuttle Discovery and its astronauts return to earth wrapping up their 15-day, 9.7 million km journey to the International Space Station. The Deepwater Horizon rig operated by British Petroleum sinks in the Gulf of Mexico following an explosion leaving 11 workers dead. April 21: Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Jayaratne is appointed Sri Lankan Prime Minister. Britain and other European countries lift the ban on ights after six days following the volcanic ash crises. China declares a day of national mourning in remembrance of the 2064 lives lost in the Qinghai quake. More than 12,135 left injured. April 22: The Brazilian government headed by Premier Yves Leterme quits following a linguistic spat between the coalition partners over a bilingual voting district. Chamal Rajapaksa is elected Sri Lanka Parliament Speaker. April 23: G.L. Peris is designated Sri Lanka Foreign Minister and Basil Rajapaksa is assigned the newly created Economic Development Ministry as a 76-member Cabinet takes ofce. April 24: The Hubble Space Tele-

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A massive peace assembly is held in Nepal capital Kathmandu. Maoists withdraw indenite general strike. May 9: The European Union announces a 750 billion special European fund to bailout failing euro zone economies. May 10: At least 66 people are killed and 146 wounded as terrorists unleash a wave of violence in Iraq. Filipinos cast votes in general elections. May 11: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown resigns. May 12: Conservative leader David Cameron assumes ofce as Britains Prime Minister and Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg takes over as Deputy Prime Minister. William Hague is the new Foreign Secretary and George Osborne the Chancellor of the Exchequer. At least 103 people among them 70 Dutch nationals are killed as a Libyan Airbus jet crashes while trying to land at Tripoli Airport. The Thailand Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva cancels a proposed November 14 election and calls off talks with anti-government protesters.

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draft law to ban burqa from public spaces. Anglo-Irish writer J. G. Farrell is posthumously awarded a special one-off lost Booker Prize for his novel Troubles published in 1970. May 22: Arjun Vajpai (16), a schoolboy from New Delhi becomes the youngest Indian to successfully climb Mount Everest. Apa Sherpa climbs peak for a record 20th time. Jordan Romero (13), from Big Bear, California becomes the youngest person in the world to conquer Mt. Everest. May 23: Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul wins the Palme dOr at the Cannes lm festival for a surreal reincarnation tale Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. Javier Bardem and Elio Germano share best actor award. Frances Juliette Binoche is named best actress. British screenwriter Simon Monjack, husband of late actor Brittany Murphy is found dead at his Hollywood Hills home in Los Angeles. May 24: South Korea announces far-reaching trade restrictions against North Korea. May 25: Argentina turns 200. The Pakistan Supreme Court upholds Lahore High Courts decision to free Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Haz Saeed from house arrest. May 26: Shuttle Atlantis wraps up a 25-year career, including 32 missions covering 120 million miles and lands at NASAs Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida. May 27: President Pratibha Patil seeks Chinas backing for a permanent UNSC seat for India during the summit meeting with President Hu Jintao. North Korea scraps pact with South Korea on the prevention of naval clashes between them. Reducing Emissions for Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+), an international programme to protect forests, gets nod at a meeting in Oslo.

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scope celebrates the 20th anniversary of its launch on April 24, 1990. April 25: The Austrian President, Heinz Fischer, wins a second sixyear term. April 26: Sudans President Omar Hassan El-Bashire registers a decisive election win. April 27: The Russian and the Ukrainian Parliaments ratify a landmark agreement to extend the lease of a key Black Sea naval base in Sevastopol to Moscow by 25 years. Oh Eun-sun, a South Korean mountaineer becomes the rst woman to scale the worlds 14 highest mountains. The U.S. extradites the former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega to France. April 28: The 16th SAARC summit opens in the Bhutan capital Thimphu. April 29: India and Pakistan agree to resume high-level dialogue disrupted since the November 28 Mumbai terror attacks following talks between Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Yusuf Raza Gilani at Thimphu on the sidelines of the SAARC summit. Belgiums Lower House of Parliament votes to ban wearing burqa in public, becoming the rst state in Europe to do so. MAY May 1: A major bomb scare rattles New Yorks Times Square. May 2: The European Union and the IMF approve a $146 billion package to rescue debt-ridden Greece. The Maoists launch an indenite general strike in Nepal seeking the formation of a national government led by them. May 3: Sri Lankan journalist J. S. Tissainayagam is pardoned by the President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Court martial hearing against former General Sarath Fonseka is suspended. Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistan-born U.S. citizen is arrested in connection with Times Square Car bomb incident, after authorities recall a ight soon after takeoff from New Yorks John F. Kennedy International Airport. May 5: Mauritians cast ballots in general elections. Nigerian President Umaru Yar Adua passes away after a long illness. May 6: Britons cast ballots in a closely contested general election in a generation. Goodluck Jonathan is sworn in Nigerian President. The three-party alliance of Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam wins 41 of the 60 seats in the Mauritius National Parliament. Researchers announce sequencing of the genetic blueprint of Neanderthals from bones found in Vindija, Croatia. May 7: The British election throws up a hung parliament and the Labour Party handed down defeat after 13 years in Power. Shahabana Mahmood and Yasmin Qureshi become Britains rst women Muslim MPs. Myanmars National League for Democracy led by Aung San Suu Kyi ceases to exist. World Wide Web launches Arabic URLs, Egypt begins registering names under the .misr domain

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May 13: Social activist Ela Bhatt receives the Niwano Peace Prize for 2010 for her contribution to the uplift of poor women in India. May 15: Australian schoolgirl sailor Jessica Watson sails into history becoming the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe solo, non-stop and without help. May 16: A number of major airports across the U.K. are closed due to renewed threat from Icelandic volcanic ash. Rima Fakih, a Lebanese immigrant is crowned Miss USA in Los Vegas making her the rst ever ArabAmerican to win the title. May 17: Iran signs nuclear fuel swap deal with Brazil and Turkey after 18 hours of negotiations in Tehran. The U.S. President Barack Obama signs the Daniel Pearl Freedom of Press Act into law. May 18: The Obama administration announces deal with major powers to impose new sanctions on Iran. May 19: U.S. geneticist Craig Venter creates synthetic life by building the genome of a bacterium from scratch and incorporating it into a cell. Thailands security forces crush a two-month protest by Red Shirts after storming a barricaded campsite in Ratchaprasong in Bangkoks commercial district. At least six persons, including a foreign journalist are killed. The French Cabinet approves a Anamika Veeramani of Cleveland, Ohio, displays her trophy after

May 28: Ninety-ve people are killed and 70 injured in terrorist attacks on two mosques in Lahore, Pakistan. Nepal parties agree to extend the term of the Constituent Assembly by a year. Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal to step down. Ready for a new starting point, top Chinese leaders tell President Pratibha Patil. An Indian-style temple is dedicated to the people of China in Luoyang Henan province. May 30: David Laws, Britains Chief Secretary to the Treasury resigns over charges of abuse of parliamentary expenses rules. Colombians cast ballots in presidential polls. May 31: Nine persons are killed after Israeli commandos attack a high-prole Gaza-bound six-ship aid otilla, trying to break the naval blockade of the Gaza Strip by Tel Aviv since June 2007. The German President Horst Koehler resigns following criticism of his comments about the nations mission in Afghanistan. JUNE June 2: Japans Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigns over the issue of letting a U.S. base remain in Okinawa prefecture. Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai escapes bid on life after a three-member Taliban suicide squad targets a peace meet in Kabul. June 3: To test endurance during a simulated 520-day return ight to Mars, six researchers are locked up inside a mock spacecraft built near Moscow where they will spend the next 18 months. Sir Paul McCartney is awarded the Gershwin Prize, the highest American award for popular song. June 4: Naoto Kan is elected Japanese Prime Minister. Indian-American Anamika Veeramani wins the Scripps National Spelling Bee contest. June 5: Israeli troops take control of MV Rachel Corrie, an Irish agged aid ship bound for Gaza. June 6: The 160-metre Capital Gate tower in Abu Dhabi is recognised as the furthest leaning manmade tower in the world by Guinness World Records. June 8: India and the Czech Republic sign three agreements. A Joint Commission on Economic Cooperation is set up. June 9: The Dutch cast ballots in parliamentary polls. The U.N. imposes fresh sanctions against Iran.

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governments decision to revise the retirement age from 60 to 62. India, Pakistan resume Composite Dialogue process, on hold since the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. June 26: The G8 summit in Canada renews its ban on the sale of enrichment and reprocessing technology to India. June 27: The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh warns against a double dip recession at the G20 Summit in Toronto, Canada. Guineans cast ballots in the West African nations rst democratic election since independence in 1958. Kyrgyzstan voters approve a new Constitution in a referendum backing radical changes from a presidential to a parliamentary form of government. India and Canada sign a civil nuclear cooperation agreement in Toronto. G-20 leaders agree on a timetable for cutting decits. Joint declaration welcomes resumption of India-Pakistan talks. June 28: India and Japan begin talks on civil nuclear cooperation in Tokyo. June 29: China and Taiwan sign a historic pact the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement in the southwest Chinese city of Chongqing. The Maldives Cabinet resigns after a standoff with the Opposition. The U.S. arrests a couple and nine other members of an alleged Russian spy ring in the last three days. June 30: Nepals Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal resigns after being at the helm for 13 months. The U.S. House of Representatives passes bill to revamp the nancial regulatory system. Benigno Aquino III is sworn in the Philippines President. JULY July 1: Christian Wulff (51) becomes Germanys youngest-ever President. Jayant Patel Indian-born U.S. citizen dubbed Dr. Death in Australia gets a seven-year jail term for a string of botched operations. Russias math whiz Grigori Perelman turns down a $ 1 million prize awarded to him for proving the 106year-old Poincare Conjecture. July 2: The United Nations General Assembly votes to create U.N. Women (UNW) for accelerating gender equality and womens empowerment. July 3: Rosa Otunbayeva is sworn in Kyrgyzstasns President in the

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American novelist Barbara Kingsolvers The Lacuna wins the years 30,000 Orange Prize for ction, Britains highly-regarded literary honour for women writers. June 13: The rst results from Belgiums general election conrm a breakthrough for Flemish separatists. Iran, Pakistan nalise gas pipeline deal. June 14: U.S. geologists discover $ 1 trillion worth of untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan. June 15: The toll in Kyrgyzstan ethnic strife touches 170. Swiss MPs approve tax deal with with the U.S. June 16: British Petroleum agrees to pay $ 20 billion into an oil spill fund. June 17: An Australian teenager is arrested in a Melbourne suburb for the January 2 murder of Indian student Nitin Garg. The European Union approves sanctions that target Irans key energy sector. June 18: Pakistani-American terror suspect Faisal Shahzad is indicted by a grand jury in the U.S. District Court of Manhattan in the botched Times Square car bombing. June 20: Poles cast ballots in snap presidential polls. Iran hangs Abdolmalek Rigi, leader of the Pakistan-based Jundallah group for violent incidents in the country. June 21: Pakistan-born American Faisal Shahzad pleads guilty to the Times Square car bomb bid 100 times. June 23: The U.S. President Barack Obama removes General Stanley McChrystal as the top NATO commander in Afghanistan. June 24: Julia Gillard is sworn in Australias rst woman Prime Minister. France is paralysed by a general strike in protest against the

Rescue workers looking for survivors in the wreckage of a plane that crashed in Islamabad, Pakistan.
capital Bishkek and becomes the rst woman head of state in Central Asia. July 4: Bronislaw Kamorowski wins Polands run off presidential elections. U.S. Army General David Petraeus assumes command of the 130,000strong international force in Afghanistan. July 5: Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan launch a customs union. Iceland authorities exhume the body of chess legend Bobby Fischer to carry out a paternity test to settle a dispute over his estate. July 7: A Solar Impulse airplane takes off on a pioneering round-theclock ight attempt at Payerne airport in Switzerland. July 8: Solar Impulse, a giant glider-like aircraft completes the rst night ight propelled by solar energy. The European Parliament gives nod for a legal blue-print for the formation of the European External Action Service, a 97,000strong diplomatic corps. Ten persons suspected of spying for Russia in the U.S. are swapped for four Russians accused of being U.S. double agents in Vienna, Austria. July 10: The European spacecraft Rosetta performs a yby of Lutetia, a massive potato-shaped asteroid. July 12: The Swiss government declares French-Polish lm director Roman Polanski under house arrest at his chalet in Gstaad a freeman. The International Criminal Court at The Hague charges Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with genocide in Darfur. July 13: Frances Lower House of Parliament votes to ban the wearing of the burqa and the niqab or full face Muslim veil in public. Arun Kumar Narote, an Indian student hailing from Hyderabad is shot dead at a provision store in Bridgeport city in the U.S. July 15: Argentina becomes the rst country in Latin America to le-

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galise same-sex marriage following a landmark Senate vote after a 15-hour debate. The U.S. Senate passes an unprecedented and game-changing Wall Street reform bill. July 16: Germany and China ink a series of deals reportedly worth several billion dollars. July 17: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard calls for general election set for August 21. NASAs wide-eld Infrared Survey Explorer or WISE completes its rst survey of the entire sky. July 18: The world celebrates Nelson Mandela International Day as the anti-apartheid icon turns 92. Syria bans niqab the full Islamic veil at universities. July 21: The U.S. President Barack Obama signs into law the DoddFrank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. July 22: Kosovos declaration of independence from Serbia in February 2008 legal, says the International Court of Justice in a ground breaking ruling. Balochistan province in Pakistan is smothered by oods. July 26: In one of the biggest leaks in U.S. military history, online whistleblower WikiLeaks brings to light a huge cache of secret U.S. les exposing truth of the failing war of Afghanistan. A Spanish man Oscar, who underwent the worlds rst full face transplant on March 20 at a Barcelona hospital, appears on television. July 28: All 152 people, including six Youth Parliament members, on board a Pakistan aircraft are killed as it crashes into the Margalla Hills skirting the capital Islamabad. The Bangladesh Supreme Court nullies the controversial 5th Amendment to the Constitution made in 1977 that gave legitimacy to military-led governments. July 30: Nepals Supreme Court upholds life term for Charles Sobhraj for a crime he committed in 1975. At least 800 people are killed after three days of rainfall causes widespread ooding in Pakistan. India and the U.S. sign an agreement for reprocessing spent nuclear fuel in Washington. July 31: Chelsea Clinton marries investment banker Marc Mezvinsky at Astor Court in Rhinebeck, New York. AUGUST Aug. 1: The Convention on Clus-

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Vladimir Putin opens oil pipeline to China. The Sinabung volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumatra erupts for the rst time in 400 years. Modern Family, Mad Men sweep the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards announced in Los Angeles. Aug. 30: The Sri Lankan Cabinet approves changes to the 1978 Constitution and lifts ban on a third term in ofce for President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Aug. 31: The President Barack Obama announces the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq. SEPTEMBER Sept. 2: The Israelis and the Palestinians begin direct peace talks in Washington. Sept. 3: India and South Korea sign landmark memoranda of understanding on defence, in Seoul. Sept. 4: A 7 magnitude earthquake devastates New Zealand. Sept. 5: Basque separatist group ETA declares a ceasere in its bloody 42-year campaign for a homeland independent of Spain. Sept. 6: Rwandas President Paul Kagame is sworn in for a second term at the capital Kigali. Sept. 7: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard wins a 17-day political marathon to lead a minority government in a hung Parliament. A general strike against pension reforms throws life out of gear in France. Ofcials hoist a 70 foot steel column salvaged from the rubble after the September 11 2001 attack on the World Trade Center at ground zero in New York. Sept. 8: The Sri Lankan Parliament approves amendments to the 1978 Constitution, including lifting the two-terms limit on the post of President. Hyundai Motor unveils BlueOn, South Koreas rst full-speed electric car in the capital Seoul. Sept. 10: India commits wideranging aid to Laos after talks between Presidents Pratibha Patil and Choumally Sayasone in Vientiane. Sept. 11: The former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is allocated Foreign Ministry. Wayne Swan is Deputy Prime Minister and Stephen Smith gets Defence. Soa Coppolas Somewhere bags the Golden Lion Prize at the 67th Venice Film Festival. The Silver Lion for best director goes to Alex de la Iglesia for Balada triste de Trompeta (A Sad Trumpet Ballad). Sept. 15: Russia and Norway sign The Treaty on Maritime Delimitation and Cooperation in the Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean, in the Russian seaport of Murmansk. Sept. 17: A court marshal recommends a three-year jail term for former Sri Lankan Army Chief Sarath Fonseka. Sept. 18: Afghanistan holds crucial parliamentary polls despite a string of rocket attacks. Philippe Croizon, a Frenchman and quadruple amputee swims across the English Channel using leg prostheses that have ippers attached. Sept. 19: China suspends contacts with Japan. Hung House in Sweden after parliamentary polls. Sept. 20: European leaders offer $ 1.3 billion on the rst day of a three-day summit on the Millennium Development Goals at the United Nations, New York. Fredrik Reinfeldt is re-elected Swedish Prime Minister. Sir Mota Singh, the United Kingdoms rst Sikh and Asian Judge receives the Pride of India Award 2009 instituted by the India International Foundation, in London. Sept. 23: The 2010 World Statesman Award is presented in absentia to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New York. Sept. 24: A U.S. court sentences Pakistani neuro-scientist Aaa Siddiqui to 86 years in prison for shooting at American soldiers in Afghanistan. Sept. 25: Chocolate maker Georges Larnicol sails his 3.5 metrelong 1.2-tonne boat made of chocolate in Concarneau Port, Western France. Balaji Sadasivan (55), Singapores Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs dies of cancer. Sept. 28: About 1,000 people are feared killed after a hillside collapses in southern Mexico, burying up to 300 homes. Sept. 29: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa approves a 30month rigorous jail term for the former Army chief Sarath Fonseka. OCTOBER Oct. 1: Chinas lunar probe Change2 is successfully launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in Sichuan province. Oct. 3: Brazilians cast ballots in presidential polls. Oct. 4: Dr. Robert G. Edwards, British scientist and IVF pioneer, who created Louise Brown the worlds rst test tube baby in 1978 is awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Oct. 5: Andre Geim of the Netherlands and RussianBritish national Konstantin Novoselov are jointly awarded the Nobel Physics Prize for their works on graphene, the worlds thinnest and strongest nanomaterial. Life term for Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistan-born U.S. citizen, charged with the May 1 Times Square bomb plot. Oct. 6: Richard F. Heck of the U.S. and Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki of Japan are chosen for the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the development of palladiumcatalysed cross-coupling. Oct. 7: Mario Vargas Llosa, celebrated PeruvianSpanish author is chosen for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Oct. 8: Jailed Chinese political activist, Liu Xiaobo is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Oct. 10: Kyrgyzstan voters cast ballots in landmark parliamentary polls. Parade in Hanoi to mark millennium of the Vietnamese capital. Oct. 11: Peter Diamond and Dale Mortensen of the U.S. and BritishCypriot Christopher Pissarides win

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ter Munitions, a landmark international treaty to ban cluster bombs takes effect. Aug. 4: Kenyan voters overwhelmingly approve a new Constitution in a referendum. Aug. 6: Pakistan says recent monsoon oods biggest-ever disaster in the nations history, with 1,32,000 sq.km. affected in Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa (formerly NWFP) and Punjab provinces alone. Aug. 7: India and Bangladesh sign an agreement on a $ 1-billion line of credit extended to Dhaka by New Delhi. Aug. 8: At least 127 people are killed and nearly 1,300 go missing after mudslides sweep away homes in Gansu provine, Northwestern China. Aug. 9: Rwandas President Paul Kagame wins a second term gaining a landslide victory. Aug. 11: British researchers announce the emergence of a new class of antibiotic-resistant superbug NDM-1 (New Delhi metallobetalactamase-1) Aug. 16: A Boeing 737 jetliner with 131 passengers aboard crashes and breaks into three pieces on landing on San Andres island in Columbia. Aug. 19: Last U.S. combat brigade leaves Iraq seven years after leading the invasion of the nation. Aug. 21: Australians cast ballots in snap national elections. Dutch solo sailor Laura Dekker (14) begins her round-the-world record bid from the Portuguese port of Portimao. Aug. 23: After a ten-hour hostage crisis, six passengers of a tourist bus are killed in the Philippines capital Manila by a sacked police ofcer who is later shot dead by security forces. Miss Mexico Jimena Navarrete is crowned Miss Universe 2010 at the 59th annual pageant held in Las Vegas. A Federal Court in Washington blocks most government nancing for embryonic stem cell research. Aug. 24: Six MPs among 30 killed in a rampage at a hotel in the Somalia capital Mogadishu. Fortytwo persons are killed when a passenger jet overshoots a runway in northeast China. Aug. 26: The High Court of Bangladesh declares illegal the Seventh Amendment to the Constitution that legalised the autocratic rule of General Hussein Muhammad Ershad. Aug. 27: Kenyas President Mwai Kibaki signs a new Constitution into law. Aug. 28: China passes a rst-ofits-kind law to set up mediation committees to handle conicts at the grassroots level. Aug. 29: www.jeywin.com Russias Prime Minister

Technicians assembling Change II, Chinas second unmanned lunar probe.

the Economics Nobel for their work on explaining demandsupply gap in the labour market and elsewhere. Oct. 12: India is elected a nonpermanent member of the United Nations Security Council. British writer and journalist Howard Jacobsons novel The Finkler Question bags the Man Booker Prize 2010. Andersen Literature Prize. Oct. 21: Three senior peers, including Labours Lord Swraj Paul, are suspended from the British House of Lords over their expenses claims. Oct. 22: The French Upper House passes the law raising the retirement age from 60 to 62 amid nationwide strikes and protests. In the largest classied military leak in history , WikiLeaks releases 400,000 secret American documents on the Iraq war. Oct. 23: Legendary Everest climber Chhewang Nima Sherpa (43), is feared killed after being swept away by an avalanche while xing ropes for a climbing group on the 7,129metre Mt. Baruntse. Oct. 25: At least 413 people are killed in a tsunami triggered by a 7.7 magnitude temblor in Indonesia. Oct. 26: China unveils the worlds fastest bullet train linking Shanghai and Hangzhou, which will run at 350 km per hour. The Iraq High Tribunal sentences to death former Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz. Paul, the octopus, who fascinated football fans with its predictions during this years World Cup dies in an aquarium in the German city of Oberhausen. At least 30 people are killed after Indonesias most volatile volcano Mount Merapi erupts.

Nepalese mountaineer Chhewang Nima Sherpa

Oct. 13: Thirtythree miners trapped since August 5 in the collapsed San Jose mine in Chiles Atacama desert are pulled out safely using the Phoenix rescue capsule. Oct. 15: Israels government ends an unofcial freeze on new building in east Jerusalem. Oct. 19: Author J.K. Rowling is presented the rst Hans Christian

Peruvian-Spanish author Mario Vargas Llosa.

British physiologist Robert G. Edwards, left, attends the 30th anniversary of the worlds rst test tube baby Louise Joy Brown, right, holding her son Cameron. At centre left is her mother, Lesley Dream Brown, at the Bourn Hall, in Bourn, England. Dare Win

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es in a remote area near Guasimal village in Sancti Spiritus province. Nov. 5: Nearly 70 worshippers are killed in the suicide bombing at a mosque in Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa, Pakistan. One hundred and ninety one people are killed as Indonesias Mount Merapi unleashes its most powerful eruption in a century. Nov. 7: Low turnout marks Myanmar polls being held after two decades. Nov. 8: Exodus following deadly clashes between Myanmar troops and Karen rebels in Myawaddy town. Aasia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian is handed down death penalty for blasphemy. Nov. 9: Rolls-Royce signs a record $1.2-billion deal to sell jet engines to China Eastern Airlines. Nov. 12: G20 summit in Seoul agrees to curb persistently large imbalances in saving and spending. The 16th Asian Games gets off to a colourful start in Guangzhou, China. Nov. 13: Aung Suu Kyi, Myanmars celebrated pro-democracy leader is freed from house arrest in Yangon. Nov. 19: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa is sworn in for a second term in Colombo. Nov. 22: At least 350 people are killed and 750 injured in a stampede on an overcrowded bridge at a Cambodian water festival. Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa unveils a 90-member Cabinet. Nov. 23: Two south Korean marines and two civilians are killed and 16 others injured as North Korea shells Yeonpyeong island in the disputed waters of the Yellow sea. Nov. 24: The worlds rst tiger summit wraps up in Russia, with leaders giving nod to a Global Tiger Recovery Programme. Nov. 27: The fuelling of Irans rst nuclear plant in Bushehr is completed. The 15-day 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, China concludes. Nov. 28: WikiLeaks, the Whistleblowers website, leaks to media outlets of more than 250,000 classied cables sent from U.S. embassies. Alassane Ouattara wins the second round of Ivory Coast presidential polls. Incumbent Laurent Gbagbo refuses to accept verdict. Nov. 29: The 10-day 16th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change opens in Cancun, Mexico. Xiaobo is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in absentia at an Oslo ceremony. India and the European Union agree on a new initiative to improve cultural ties, among other things, at the EU-India Summit in Brussels. Dec. 11: Car bomb blasts rock the Swedish capital Stockholm. Dec. 12: Kosovo votes in its rst elections since declaring independence from Serbia in 2008. Dec. 13: Irans President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismisses Foreign Minister Manoucher Mottaki. Richard Holbrooke (69), the U.S. President Barack Obamas Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan passes away at the George Washington University Hospital in Washington of complications from 21 hours of surgery to repair ruptured aorta. Dec. 15: At last 48 refugees one killed after their wooden boat shatters after crashing into rocks at Christmas Island, Australia. Thirtynine persons are killed in a suicide attack in the south-eastern Iranian city of Chabahar. The Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is named Time magazines 2010 Person of the Year. The U.N. Security Council eases sanctions on Iraq. Curtains on oil for-food programme. Dec. 16: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is freed. Dec. 17: U.S. missile attacks leave 54 killed in Pakistans Khyber tribal region. Venezuelan lawmakers vote to let President Hugo Chavez bypass Parliament and rule by decree for 18 months. Dec. 18: The U.S. Senate votes to repeal the Dont Ask, Dont Tell law that will allow the military to permit gays to serve openly. Dec. 19: Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko wins a fourth straight term in ofce. Dec. 21: Iraqs Parliament conrms Nouri al-Maliki as Prime Minister for a second term. Dec. 22: The U.S. Senate passes the New START treaty with Russia. Australia apologises and makes a payout to Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef for wrongly detaining and charging him with involvement in a terrorism plot in Britain in 2007. Dec. 23: The International Convention for the Protection of all Persons From Enforced Disappearance enters into force. A commemorative coin marking the engagement of Britains Prince

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DECEMBER Dec. 4: Indias Nicole Faria is crowned Miss Earth Talent 2010 in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. An explosion derails the Thar Express near Dhabaji, in the Sindh province of Pakistan. At last 41 people are killed in a four-day inferno triggered by a forest re in Israel. Dec. 6: Forty persons are killed and 60 injured as two suicide bombers in police uniform target a tribal area in Pakistan. Dec. 7: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is arrested by the British police following surrender at a Central London police station. Iran should full its obligations to the IAEA, says the Gulf Cooperation Council summit in Abu Dhabi. Dec. 8: At least 83 inmates of a Chilean prison are killed in a re set off by rioting fellow prisoners. Space X, a private U.S. rm conducts a perfect launch into orbit and back of the Dragon Capsule. Dec. 9: A teenager is sentenced by the Supreme Court for the January 2 murder of an Indian youth Nitin Garg in Cruickshank Park in Melbourne, Australia. Dec. 10: Chinese dissident Liu

Richard Holbrooke
William and Kate Middleton is released in London. Dec. 24: The Russian Parliament gives preliminary approval for New START treaty. Dec. 25: At least 49 persons are killed and over 100 injured after a woman suicide bomber targets people at a World Food Programme centre in Bajaur tribal agency in Pakistan. An earthquake causes a minor tsunami in the South Pacic. Jayachandra Elaprolu, a student from Andhra Pradesh, is shot dead in a robbery at a gas station in Pasadena city of Texas state. Dec. 27: The jailed former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky is found guilty of stealing oil from his rm Yukos in his second trial. Dec. 30: The former Israeli President, Moshe Katsav, is held guilty of rape by a Tel Aviv court. A Moscow judge hands down a 13.5-year jail term to former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Dec. 31: Australias northeast is battered by oods. Forced evacuation in Rockhampton town.

Relatives of a miner react while watching on a TV screen the rescue operation at the camp outside the San Jose mine near Copiapo, Chile.
Oct. 27: Frances Parliament grants nal approval to a bill raising the retirement age from 60 to 62. The former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner (60), dies in Buenos Aires after suffering from severe heart trouble. India signs the convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna. Oct. 30: Alexandria Mills from the U.S. is crowned Miss World 2010 at a glittering ceremony in Sanya, China. Oct. 31: Brazilians vote in presidential run-off. NOVEMBER Nov. 1: Dilma Rousseff becomes Brazils rst-ever woman President. Nov. 2: Britain and France sign an unprecedented 50-year nuclear deal. The Republican Party sweeps to power in the election to the 112th United States Congress. Democrats strength in Senate slashed. Nimrata Nikki Randhawa Haley is elected South Carolina Governor. British Labour peer Swraj Paul resigns as Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords. Nov. 3: Indonesias Mount Merapi erupts with its biggest blast yet shooting searing ash kilometres into the air. Indian-American Kamala Harris wins election for Attorney-General of California. Nov. 4: All 68 people on board a Cuban plane are killed after it crash-

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