NOVEMBER 2008

NATIONAL NEWS : NOVEMBER 2008

Nov. 2
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Union Steel Minister Ram Vilas Paswan escape an IED blast while passing through Kalaichandi in Paschim Medinipur District.

Sensex regains the 10000 mark continuing its upsurge for the fourth day in a row.

Nov. 4
Eminent Hindustani vocalist of the Khirana Gharana Pandit Bhimsen Joshi is chosen for the Bharat Ratna Award.

The Government decides to declare Ganga a national river and set up a high-power Ganga River Basin Authority to stop its pollution.

Chandrayaan-1 becomes the first Indian-built space craft to leave the earth’s gravity.

Mumbai police arrest for the first time ever a serving Army Officer Lt. Col. Prasad Shrikant Purohit for terrorism-related crimes.


Nov. 6
Kashmiri poet Abdul Rahman Rahi is presented the 40th Jnanpith Award by the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Delhi.

A Chennai court frees MDMK General Secretary Vaiko and Presidium chairman M. Kannappan held on sedition charges.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs gives nod for the first rail link to Sikkim. Integrated checkposts to come up on borders.

Sensex dips below the 10000 level shedding 385 points following a steep fall in blue chip stocks led by Reliance Industries.

Nov. 7
George Fernandes and four other Janata Dal (United) MPs quit Lok Sabha in protest against the Centre’s “inaction” on the issue of attacks on North Indians in Maharashtra.

Nov. 8
Chandrayaan-1 is safely inserted into the lunar orbit.


Nov. 10
Sensex regains the 10000 level buoyed up by China’s multi-billion dollar stimulus plan for its economy.

Nov. 11
Senior Congress leader Margaret Alva resigns as general secretary after alleging that the party indulged in election ticket sale.

Sensex loses 696.47 points to close at 9839.69

A rare cardiac surgery to repair an aneurysm is done for the first time in the nation at a Kochi-based hospital.

Nov. 12
Shourya, a new surface-to-surface missile is successfully test-fired from the Integrated Test Range at Balasore in Orissa.

The senior Congress leader. Margaret Alva is removed from all party posts.

Sudhakar Dwivedi alias Amritanand the Peethadeeshwar of Sharada Sarvagya Peeth in Jammu is detained for his alleged role in the Malegaon blasts, at his brother’s house in Ramatpur village, Kanpur.

Nov. 13
The second summit of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation BIMSTEC in New Delhi agrees on a pact on combating terrorism.

The Congress removes Yogendra Makwana as chairman of its Scheduled Castes department.

Nov. 14
The Moon Impact Probe on board Chandrayaan-1 successfully ejects and lands on the lunar surface near the Shackleton crater on the South pole.

Fifty-five percent turnout in first phase of Chhattisgarh Assembly polls.

IAF officer killed in Naxal attack on chopper ferrying poll material from Bijapur.

Nov. 15
The former Union Minister Yogendra Makwana launches new outfit National Bahujan Congress Party.

Nov. 17
Fifty-five percent polling is recorded in the first phase of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly election.

Nov. 18
India and Egypt sign an extradition treaty at a bilateral summit being held after 11 years in New Delhi.

The Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is conferred the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding for 1995.

The BSP expels the former External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh and his son Jagat Singh for anti-party activities.

Lt. Gen. Noble Thamburaj is appointed next Army Vice-Chief.
Sensex closes at 8937.20 extending the losing streak for the fifth straight day. IT stocks suffer the most.

Nov. 19
The International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei is chosen for the Indira Gandhi prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2008.

A man and two priests arrested in the 16-year-old Sr. Abhaya murder case are remanded to CBI custody.

Sensex falls for the sixth trading day in a row and has lost 1762 points in the said period.

Nov. 20
Sixtyeight per cent polling is recorded in the second and final phase in Chhattisgarh.

Nov. 22
The 39th International Film Festival of India gets under way in the Goa capital Panaji.

Ravindra Rajaram Kelekar eminent Goan writer in Konkani is declared the joint winner of the 42nd Jnanpith award for 2006.

Nov. 23
Sixty-two percent polling is recorded in the second phase of J&K Assembly elections.

Nov. 24
SBI to enter general insurance business. Forms joint venture with Insurance Australia Group of Australia.

Nov. 26
At least 125 persons are killed and 327 injured in a series of explosions and firing by Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists at seven places in Mumbai.

Anti-terrorism squad chief Hemant Karkare dies while seeking to assist in an operation near the Cama and Albless Hospital. Additional Commissioner of Police (East) Ashok Kamte and inspector Vijay Salaskar also lay down their lives. Fiftysix persons are killed and 98 injured in the terrorist rampage at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus.

Sensex regains the 9000 level after nine days on hectic buying across counters by funds.

Nov. 27
Four terrorists holed up in Mumbai’s Taj Mahal hotel are killed as NSG commandos and the Army launch a counteroffensive. Hundreds evacuated from hotels. The BSE and the NSE remain closed.

Nine foreigners are killed and 11 injured in the multiple terror attacks in Mumbai.

The wife and two sons of Taj Hotels General Manager Karambir Kang are killed in the attack a day earlier.

The former Prime Minister Vishwanath Pratap Singh (77) remembered most for ordering the implementation of the Mandal Commission recommendations dies after a prolonged illness at the Apollo Hospital in New Delhi.

Sixty percent turnout is recorded in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections.

Nov. 28
Nine inmates and three terrorists are killed in the Chabad-Lukovich Jewish religious centre in Nariman House in Colaba area. Five hundred people are rescued from the Oberoi/Trident hotel. Thirty-six people die in the attacks.

Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan NSG commando leading the rescue efforts at the Taj hotel falls to terrorists’ bullets.

Nov. 29
At least 172 persons including 21 foreigners lose their lives in the Mumbai terror attacks. Nine terrorists are killed in the 60-hour gun battle with security forces dubbed Operation Cyclone.

Cyclone Nisha batters Chennai city besides wreaking havoc in almost all the districts of Tamil Nadu leaving over 100 dead. Chennai receives about 370mm rainfall in a span of 72 hours.

Sixty per cent polling is recorded in the Delhi Assembly elections.

Over 10,000 poultry birds are culled in a bird flu affected area of Assam’s Kamrup district.

Nov. 30
Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil resigns and Finance Minister P. Chidambaram replaces him. Prime Minister to hold Finance portfolio.

The Centre plans to set up a Federal Investigation Agency.

Sixtytwo per cent polling is recorded in the third phase of J&K Assembly elections.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS IN NOVEMBER 2008 MONTH

Nov. 2
Rupiah Banda is sworn in Zambian President.
Russia, Libya sign a civilian nuclear deal.
Nov. 4
Democrat Senator from Illinois Barack Obama an African-American wins the U.S. presidential polls defeating Republican John McCain.

Iranian Parliament impeaches Interior Minister Ali Kordan for being in possession of a fake Oxford University honorary degree.

Nov. 6
Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuk is crowned Bhutan’s Fifth Druk Gyalpo, or Dragon King by his father Jigme Singye Wangchuk at a coronation ceremony in Thimphu.

Nov. 7
Fifty school children and teachers are killed after a school in Petionville on the outskirts of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince caves in.Oman and India agree to set up a joint investment fund whose seed money could go up to $1.5 billion. Two MoUs inked to ensure welfare of Indian workforce and priority for Indians in recruitment.
The U.K. revokes the visa of Thailand’s ousted Prime Minister, Thakshin Shinatwara, making him unable to return to London where he has been living in exile.

Nov. 8
New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark loses power to John Key a multi-millionaire former banker in general elections.

Twenty people are killed of gas poisoning in an accident aboard a new Russian nuclear submarine, to be leased to India, during underwater sea trial in the Sea of Japan.
Nov. 9
All the three perpetrators of the October 2002 bombings in Bali, Indonesia that left 202 killed, on death row are executed by a firing squad at a prison complex in central Java.

China unveils a $570-billion stimulus package to offset adverse global economic conditions by boosting domestic demand.

Nov. 10
India signs a “landmark” defence agreement with Qatar, besides pact on security and law enforcement.

At least 31 persons are killed and 71 wounded in twin bomb blasts in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

Nov. 11
Mohammed Nasheed is sworn in Maldives President and Mohammed Waheed Hassan takes oath as Vice-President.

Nov. 13
Global stock markets fall after Germany announces recession.

The U.N. to send 3,000 more troops to Congo to bolster the world’s largest peacekeeping mission.
Ilustrado, a novel by Filipino author Miguel Syjuco wins the $10,000 Man Asian Literary Prize.

Nov. 14
Ann E. Dunwoody becomes the first woman four-star general in the U.S. military.

Nov. 15
The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh moots a coordinated global fiscal stimulus to mitigate the severity of recession addressing the G-20 Summit in Washington. Declaration focuses on reforming international financial institutions.
The Sri Lankan military captures Pooneryn, the last strategic sea base of the LTTE. Army opens up a land route to Jaffna after 20 years.

Nov. 16
Somali pirates hijack Sirius Star, a Saudi Arabian oil supertanker 830 km off the Kenyan coast.
Nov. 17
Iraq and the U.S. sign troop pullout pact requiring Washington to withdraw its soldiers by 2011.

Japan slides into recession in seven years.
Nov. 20
Deepening global recessionary trend pushes the world stocks to 5-1/2 year lows.
Nov. 22
I am for no-first-use of nuclear weapons, says the Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and assures Islamabad will not interfere in Jammu and Kashmir.

Nov. 23
The U.S. government to plough a fresh $20 billion to rescue banking giant Citigroup. To shoulder most of the potential losses on $306 billion of high risk assets.

Nov. 24
Hundreds of LTTE cadres are killed as the Sri Lankan military tries to gain control over Kilinochchi.People’s Alliance for Democracy, an umbrella alliance of anti-government groups in Thailand lays siege to Parliament. Take control of state-of-the-art Suvarnabhumi airport.
Nov. 25
Maninderpal Singh Kohli is sentenced to lifer by a London court in the 2003 murder of 17-year-old British schoolgirl Hannah Foster.

The British government rolls out its controversial biometric identity cards scheme for non-European foreign nationals.

Nov. 27
Iraq’s Parliament gives nod for a landmark military pact that will see all U.S. troops pull out by 2011-end.

SPORTS NEWS IN NOVEMBER 2008 MONTH

Nov. 1
Saina Nehwal wins World junior badminton title in Pune.

Nov. 2
Anil Kumble announces his retirement from Test cricket during the third Test against Australia in New Delhi.
Britain’s Lewis Hamilton becomes the youngest ever Formula One champion at the age of 23.

Nov. 5
Gagan Narang equals the World record (600/600 in the preliminaries) to win the men’s 10m air rifle gold in the shooting World Cup finals in Bangkok.
Nov. 10
Host India regains the Border-Gavaskar Test Series Trophy defeating Australia 2-0.

Rehan Poncha and Richa Mishra are adjudged the best men’s and women’s swimmers in the National championship held in Hyderabad.

Nov. 16
Novak Djokovic claims the Masters Cup in Shanghai.

Jeev Milkha Singh wins the Singapore Open golf championship.

Nov. 17
Pakistan blanks West Indies 3-0 in the ODI series in Abu Dhabi.
Nov. 20
Pankaj Advani wins the men’s National billiards title in Indore.
Nov. 21
Joshna Chinappa wins her maiden WISPA squash title in the NSC Super Satellite tournament in Kuala Lumpur.
Nov. 23
Spain defeats host Argentina 3-1 in the Davis Cup final in Mar Del Plata.
Nov. 25
Peter Thangaraj, one of India’s best goalkeepers passes away.

Umadevi wins the women’s National billiards title in Indore.
Nov. 26
Terror attacks in Mumbai force the cancellation of the remaining ODIs between India and England.
Nov. 29
M.C. Marykom wins her fourth successive World boxing championship in China.

Nov. 30
Pankaj Advani and Vidya Pillai win the men’s and women’s title in the Senior National snooker championship in Indore.

OBITUARY NEWS IN NOVEMBER 2008 MONTH

Nov. 4
Michael Crichton (66), best known author of science fiction novels Jurassic Park and its sequel The Lost World, The Andromeda Strain and creator of TV hit ER, in Los Angeles of cancer.
Nov. 5
B. R. Chopra (94), legendary filmmaker famous for immortal Hindi classics like Waqt (1965) and Naya Daur (1957) and TV serial Mahabharat in Mumbai after a prolonged illness.

Nov. 10
Miriam “Zenzi” Makeba (76), South African anti-apartheid icon and singer better known as Mamma Africa and the Empress of African Song of heart attack shortly after performing at a protest concert iin Naples, Italy.

Nov. 14
Ajit Panja (72) former Union Minister and senior Trinamool Congress leader, of cancer at a private hospital in Kolkata.

Nov. 15
James Heitzman (58), historian of South Asia and urban studies scholar in Stanford hospital, California, of cancer.
Nov. 19
Manjeri Narayanan Nambiar (88), the “handsome villain” of Tamil cinema at his home in Chennai following a brief illness.

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