May 14 Jaya Lalitha sworn in as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.

Bureau of Indian Standards has developed interactive windows-based software for facilitating decisions on fire protection in buildings.

The Union Cabinet grants special category status to Uttaranchal, making it eligible for allocation of larger Central aid on more liberal terms.

Leading Textile industrialist, Dr. Mohan Lal Piramal dies in Mumbai.

- The Russian made surface-to-air missile Osa is successfully testfired from the Interim Test Range at Chandipur-on-sea.

The veteran Congress leader and former Gujarat Chief Minister, Chhabildas Mehta resigns from the primary membership of the party.

Centre bans radical outfit Deendar Anjuman.

The Russian Foreign Minister, Igor Ivanov arrives New Delhi.

 

 

 

 

A special CBI court drops proceedings against three Union Ministers, L.K. Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Uma Bharti and 18 others.

Film actor Fardeen Khan is arrested by Narcotics Control Bureau on the charge of possessing cocaine.

India begins its largest military exercise 'Poorna Vijay' in Rajasthan.

Pro-Pakistani hackers have defiled the website of the Ministry of External Affairs posting anti-India messages on it.

India's Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupati win their second straight doubles title by winning Claycourt Tennis championship.

May 8

The President appoints BJP member Kedar Nath Sahani as Governor of Sikkim, Amolak Rattan Kohli as Governor of Mizoram and Nagendra Nath Jha as Lt. Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Renowned film lyricist Prem Dhawan dies of heart attack at Mumbai.

The 67 day-old Balco workers strike has been called off.

A special court issues non-bailable arrest warrants against former Chief Ministers Laloo Prasad Yadav, Jagannath Mishra and 108 others accused in the fodder scam.

The Arunachal Pradesh Education Minister, Dera Natung and six others are killed in a helicopter crash in West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh.

The indefinite strike by Bihar Chemists and Druggists Association is called off.

The Union Cabinet allows Foreign Direct Investment in Defence and Telecom sectors.

About 65 per cent voters in Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Kerala, Assam and in Union Territory of Pondicherry exercise their franchise for the Assembly polls.

The Indian military exercise 'Poorna Vijay' in Rajasthan concludes.

H.K. Dua, Information Advisor to the Prime Minister, has been appointed Indian Ambassador to Denmark.

India's first electric car named Reva unveiled on the Technology Day in New Delhi.

- The Supreme Court stays the arrest of former Bihar Chief Ministers Laloo Prasad Yadav and Jagannath Mishra.

The Supreme Court allows two of Hinduja brothers to go abroad.

Afghan national Del Agha, one of the main accused in the Uzbekistan based smuggling racket, surrenders before the CBI in New Delhi.

Prime Minister Vajpayee reaches Kuala Lumpur on a four-day official visit to Malaysia.

Renowned novelist and storywriter of international repute R.K. Narayan passes away in Chennai.

The results of Assembly elections in the five States are declared.

Mammen Mathew, Malayala Manorama editor takes over as president of the Editor's Guild of India for 2001-02.

Chief Minister of Manipur Radhabinod Koijam sacks six ministers of the cabinet while seven others resign.

In a move to discipline the capital market, SEBI bans the 'Badla' trade.

AIADMK General Secretary J. Jayalalitha sworn in as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.

Senior Congress leader A.K. Antony unanimously elected as the leader of Congress legislators to become the Chief Minister of Kerala.

Former foreign secretary K. Raghunath is appointed India's ambassador to Russia.

 

India, along with the European Union and 14 other countries, has been brought under the 'Special 301' priority watchlist of the United States Trade Representative for violation of the intellectual property rights.

- San Francisco officials cast their vote to make it the first city to finance sex change for municipal employees.

 

 

 

At least 34 people died in a landslide in southwest China.

Farah Khosravi is the first woman to run for President election in Iran.

The United States voted out from the UN Human Rights Commission.

Taliban agrees for Osama Bin Laden's trial in absentia in the United States.

Several soccer fans are killed and hundreds injured when the roof of a stadium ground stand caved- in during a game in northeast Iran.

The capsule carrying the world's first paying space tourist lands successfully in the Kazak steppe.

John Paul II becomes the first Pope to step in a Mosque when he visited the Omayyad mosque in Damascus.

Heat wave kills at least 36 people in different parts of Pakistan.

Heart surgeon, Dr. Inderjit Singh Virdi, becomes the first Indian to be admitted to the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.

The world's largest plane successfully completes its test flight in Ukraine.

The US loses seat on the International Narcotics Control Board to which India and five other countries have been elected.

World's first genetically modified babies have been born in Washington.

At least 130 people are killed in a stampede at a football stadium in at Accra in Ghana.

Six South African cricketers including Herschelle Gibbs have been fined for smoking marijuana during the West Indies tour.

Miss Puerto Rico, Denise Quinones is crowned Miss Universe 2001 in San Juan.

Thirty-one Indian fishermen taken into custody for allegedly fishing in Lankan territorial waters.

For the first time, India has set up a promotional tent at the Cannes Film Festival to draw attention towards Indian film industry.

- Pakistan launches its first indigenously built trainer air-craft called 'Super Mushshak'.