• Japan announces IT initiatives for India.
• Indian High Commission to Pakistan, Mr. Vijay Nambiar presents his credentials to the Pakistani President.
• The first batch of supplementary demands for grants for 2000-2001 is passed by Parliament.
• West Bengal Government is raising a commando battalion to fight ISI ultras.
• Lok Sabha passes Chemical Weapons Convention Bill, 2000.
• Two companies headed by US-based Indian rank among the top 100 fastest growing companies in Fortune magazine's list.
• Fiji's deposed Prime Minister Mahendra Pal Chaudhary arrives in New Delhi on a 10-day visit to India.

• President gives assent to the Indian Companies (foreign interests) and the Companies (temporary restrictions on dividends) Repeal Bill, the Cotton Cloth (Repeal) Bill, the Iron and Steel Companies (amalgamation and takeover laws) Repeal Bill and the Motor Vehicles (amendment) Bill.
• Palestine leader Yasser Arafat arrives in New Delhi.

• A VSNL earth station, linking the north-east region with Vikram earth station by INTELSAT is inaugurated by Union Communications Minister in Guwahati.
• BCCI approves a code of conduct for players and officials under which cricketers found involved in betting and match-fixing could be banned for life.
• Dilip Kumar is honoured with Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award in New Delhi.

• All 118 crew members aboard the Russian submarine, which sank nine days back, are dead.

• Rajya Sabha passes Bill to amend the 1920 Passport (entry into India) Act, stipulating severer punishment for those entering the country without valid travel documents.
• Parliament approves Bill to bring about uniformity in cable television network operations and avoid telecast of undesirable programmes which depict vulgarity and obscenity.
• Parliament approves the Border Security Force (amendment) Bill, 2000, seeking that the pre-trial detention period of court-martialed personnel be set off against the period of imprisonment.
• European Commission imposes provisional anti-dumping duties, ranging from 25 to 36 per cent, on polyester staple fibre imports from India.

• Lok Sabha approves two Constitutional amendment bills to restore relaxations in qualifying marks for promotions in government jobs to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and exempt tribal-dominated Arunachal Pradesh from reservation for SCs.
• Rajya Sabha passes Workmen's Compensation (amendment) Bill, 2000, which seeks to enhance compensation to workmen in case of death or permanent disability and also its applicability to all casual workers.

• Union Power Minister P.R. Kumaramangalam passes away in New Delhi.
• Health Ministry announces target for elimination of leprosy from the country by 2003.

• Musician Kalyanji Shah, 72 passes away in Mumbai.
• Addressing a meeting on India-Japan global partnership in New Delhi, Japanese Prime Minister announces a $15 billion package to be spent in Asia over the next five years to promote infotech in development countries.

• India's short range surface-to-air missile with multi-purpose utility - Trishul is successfully test-fired .
• Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare constitutes a six-member committee to inquire into all aspects of the treatment provided to Union Power Minister, P.R. Kumaramangalam at the Apollo Hospital.

• China refuses India's request for an alternative route to Kailash-Mansarovar from Dhamchock area of Ladakh.

• Telecom Regulatory Authority of India announces reductions in international and national long distance call charges. The new rates will be effective from 1 October this year till March 2002.
• Election Commission announces byelections to the Dausa Lok Sabha seat in Rajasthan and for eight assembly seats in eight states on 29 September.
• Shotputter Shakti Singh and disc thrower Neelam J Singh bag gold medals for India on the inaugural day of the 13^th Asian Track-and-Field Championship in Jakarta.
• Ashok Kumar is appointed Chairman of the Railway Board.

• Government announces Minimum Support Price for all crops for the 2000-01 Kharif season.
• Supreme Court stays the release of 115 Veerappan aides.
• Government announces strategic sale of majority equity stakes in four public sector companies.
• Indian Army blasts a launching pad of militants and a bunker of Pakistani troops opposite Kunrali in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, killing at least a dozen Pakistani soldiers and militants.

• Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee announces a new package for small scale industries sector.
• Mr. Justice B.P. Jeevan Reddy is reappointed as Chairman of the16^th Law Commission.

• Cabinet decides to lift all curbs on foreign equity investment in select segments of the telecommunication sector and in the Special Economic Zones (SEZs).
• The Eleventh Finance Commission submits its second report to the President.
• Government decides to corporatise the Department of Telecom Services (DTS) from October 1.
• Cabinet approves IT revamp plan.
• Union Cabinet decides to freeze the number of seats in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies till the year 2026.
• Department of Telecom Operations simplifies the procedure for the allotment of STD/ISD Public Call Offices to cut down delays.
• Centre clears Voluntary Retirement Scheme for all public sector banks.

• Sri Lanka Government dissolves Parliament and announces general elections on October 10.

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