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RESEARCH,
REFERENCE AND TRAINING DIVISION
(Ministry of Information and Broadcasting)
Website : www.nic.in/rrtd
E-mail : rrtd_ib@vsnl.com |
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The Diary |
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Vol. XLIV |
16-31 October, 2000
(Asvina 24 - Kartika 9 1922) |
No.14 |
NATIONAL EVENTS
October 17 Government bans used car imports after April 2001.
October 18 Supreme Court gives its nod to Sardar Sarovar Dam.
October 19 India, Australia sign MoU in IT.
October 22 Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee back in New Delhi after surgery.
October 24 BJP leader Manohar Parrikar is Goa's new Chief Minister.
- Sitaram Kesri passes away
October 30 CBI submits its report on match-fixing.
October 31 Chhattisgarh State is born
INTERNATIONAL
October 16 Middle East Summit begins.
October 17 Israel, Palestine agree to end violence in the West Bank and Gaza.
This fortnightly service brings
to focus the major national and international events for record and reference by the
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and its media units. |
NATIONAL
October 16
- Two MiG-21 aircraft collide in mid-air in Darrang district near Tezpur in Assam.
- Economic Editors conference begins in New Delhi.
- Pakistan military ruler General Pervez Musharraf tells in a television programme that
hjs country could use its nuclear bomb against India if its security is jeopardized.
- Forest brigand Veerappan releases S.A. Govindaraj, son-in-law of filmstar Rajkumar.
- Finance Ministry clears Finance Companies Regulation Bill.
October 17
- Information Technology Act, 2000 to be operational from 17 October 2000. The Act gives
legal sanction to e-governance and e-commerce.
- J&K Chief Minister announces panchayat elections from 5 January next year after a
gap of 22 years.
- Government not to permit used car imports after April 2001.
- Asian Development Bank approves a loan of $250 million to Power Grid Corporation of
India Ltd. for inter-state and inter-regional transmission systems in India.
- Foreign Investment Promotion Board approves $500-million American depository receipt
issue of Shiv Nadar-promoted HCL Technologies.
October 18
- Supreme Court gives nod for the construction of Sardar Sarovar dam on the Narmada river.
- Government slashes telephone registration charges to Rs.2000 for urban phones and Rs.500
for rural phones.
- Government announces to provide more foodgrains at cheaper rates to the poor in order to
dispose of about 10 million tonnes surplus stocks.
- India's first butterfly park will come up in Tenmala near Kollam.
- Mr. Enron decides to exit from oil and gas production operations in India and seeks
government permission to withdraw from his joint ventures in Panna, Mukta and Tapti
fields.
- Kerala to get Rs.1,800 crore Asian Development Bank loan.
- India and Italy agree to sort out bilateral trade issues and sign a pact for promotion
of mutual credit guarantee schemes.
- Centre notifies the entertainment sector, including films, as an industry under the
Industrial Development Bank of India Act 1964.
- Government sets up a panel on cyber regulation.
October 19
- Government puts foreign direct investment into insurance sector on automatic route.
- India, Australia sign MoU for cooperation in information technology.
- Coastguard personnel arrest thirty seven Pakistani fishermen off Okha port.
- Fifteen militants, including seven belonging to Lashker-e-Toiba outfit are killed in
three separate encounters in Jammu & Kashmir.
- India to get $446 million loan from IDA for Third Technicians Education project and
Gujarat State Highway project.
October 20
- President K.R. Narayanan presents gallantry awards to 21 men and medals to 33 senior
officers of the armed forces for distinguished services.
- Indian Council of Medical Research releases a new set of ethical guidelines for medical
institutions and scientists engaged in the conduct of human trials.
October 21
- BJP pulls out of Goa Government.
October 22
- Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is back in Delhi after knee-joint surgery.
- Government relaxes procurement norms in Haryana to mop up more paddy from the market at
the minimum support price fixed for the winter season.
- Expenditure Reforms Commission recommends import price parity for naphtha.
October 23
- Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority issues the first batch of six licences to
joint ventures with 26 per cent foreign equity.
- India, China agree to fight jointly the attempts to promote labour standards through the
'trade route'.
- Japanese Government decides to send a high-level economic mission to India from October
29 to meet political and economic leaders.
- Government initiates prosecution against 24 vanishing companies from a list of 142
companies declared 'untraceable' by the SEBI.
October 24
- BJP Leader Manohar Parrikar is new Chief Minister of Goa.
- $650 million undersea cable network to link India, Singapore.
- India's envoy to Austria is recalled.
- Sitaram Kesri, 84, passes away in New Delhi.
October 25
- Rajnath Singh is elected leader of the BJP party's Legislature group in Uttar Pradesh.
October 27
- Writer and freedom fighter Manmatha Nath Gupta,93, passes away.
October 28
- West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu formally submits his resignation to Governor.
- Rajnath Singh is sworn in the 29th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
- Canadian Police arrests two Sikhs in connection with Kanishka bombing case.
October 29
- West Bengal Governor accepts the resignation of Chief Minister Basu. Left Front elects
Deputy CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee as the new leader.
- Sri Lanka beat India in the final of the triangular one-day series in Sharjah.
October 30
- CBI hands over its report on match-fixing to Sports Minister.
- Former Bihar Director General of Police Dinesh Nandan Sahaya, Akali Dal leader Surjit
Singh Barnala and Cabinet Secretary Prabhat Kumar were appointed Governors of Chattisgarh,
Uttaranchal and Jharkhand respectively.
- Group of Minister (GoM) headed by Home Minister L.K. Advani clears Direct-to-home (DTH)
service.
October 31
- Chhattisgarh, the 26th State of the Indian Union is born and Ajit Jogi is to
be sworn as the first Chief Minister of the State.
BSNL commissions its first satellite telephone exchange at Calcutta.
- Cabinet approves the promulgation of an ordinance for the creation of a central road
fund.
- Government decides to rein in the errant non-banking finance companies.
INTERNATIONAL
October 16
- Middle East Summit begins.
October 17
- Israel, Palestine agree to 'immediate concrete measures' to end violence in the West
Bank and Gaza.
- Pakistani Agriculture Minister Shafqat Jamote resigns, the second cabinet member to
leave the government in four days.
October 18
- Russia, US call for additional UN sanctions against the Taliban and agree to step up
pressure on the ruling Afghan government to stop supporting terrorism.
October 21
- Former World Heavyweight boxing champion, Mike Tyson beats Poland's Andrew Golota.
- UN General Assembly slams Israel for excessive use of force against Palestinians.
October 24
- United States forces on high alert in parts of West Asia because of indications of
terrorist threats.
October 25
- A Russian military jet with 75 people aboard crashes into a mountain in the Caucasus
Republic of Georgia.
October 27
- Pakistan allows tourists from all over the world to fly to Pakistan, except Indians
without prior clearance from the country's missions abroad.
October 30
- Pakistan's Sindh High Court turns down a state appeal demanding death sentence for
ousted PM Nawaz Sharif, but upholds his conviction and life sentence.
October 31
- A Singapore Airlines plane bound for Los Angeles crashes while taking off at Taipei
international airport.
- Three travellers are successfully launched towards a home in space from the
Russian-owned cosmodrome at Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
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