Jan 9:
Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt quits as Samajwadi Party general secretary.
Jan11:
India and Bangladesh sign five pacts to add thrust to ties following talks between Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Sheikh Hasina wajed in New Delhi.
Jan 12:
President Pratibha Patil presents the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2009 to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Haina in New Delhi.
Jan 13:
Prominent Right to Information activist Satish Shetty dies in an attack in Talegaon, near Pune.
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Letika Saran takes charge as Tamil Nadu’s first woman DGP.
Jan 15:
The millennium’s longest annular solar eclipse covers a swathe of 1,000 km and the 11-minute spectacle enthralls millions.
Jan 16:
National Security Advisor M.K. Narayan is appointed West Bengal Governor; Shivraj Patil is named Punjab Governor. M.O.H. Farook to be Jharkhand Governor. Urmila Patel gets Himachal Pradesh and Shekhar Dutta Chattisgarh.
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E.S.L. Narasimhan is shifted to the Andhra Pradesh Raj Bhavan, Prabha Rau is to be Rajasthan Governor and K. Sankaranarayanan is made Maharashtra Governor.
Jan 17:
Jyoti Basu (95), veteran Marxist leader and Chief Minister of West Bengal for 23 years (june 1977 – November 2000) dies of septicaemia due to pneumonia resulting in multi-organ failure at a private hospital in Kolkata after battling for life over the last 17 days.
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Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav accepts Amar Singh’s resignation.
Jan 19:
CPI (M) Patriarch Jyoti Basu is given a state funeral with military honours in Kolkata.
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Cinematographer V.K. Murthy is chosen for the 2008 Dada Saheb Phalke Lifetime Achievement Award.
Jan 20:
The Osmania University campus in Hyderabad witnesses see-saw battles even as all the 10 districts in Telangana region observe a bandh against the delay in bifurcating the state.
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India and Malaysia sign an extradition treaty, an MoU on higher education after talks between Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Mohammad Najib Tun Abdul Razak, in New Delhi.
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Pilot error led to the crash of the then Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy’s helicopter on September 2, 2009, says the R.K. Tyagi probe panel report.
Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt quits as Samajwadi Party general secretary.
Jan11:
India and Bangladesh sign five pacts to add thrust to ties following talks between Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Sheikh Hasina wajed in New Delhi.
Jan 12:
President Pratibha Patil presents the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2009 to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Haina in New Delhi.
Jan 13:
Prominent Right to Information activist Satish Shetty dies in an attack in Talegaon, near Pune.
&
Letika Saran takes charge as Tamil Nadu’s first woman DGP.
Jan 15:
The millennium’s longest annular solar eclipse covers a swathe of 1,000 km and the 11-minute spectacle enthralls millions.
Jan 16:
National Security Advisor M.K. Narayan is appointed West Bengal Governor; Shivraj Patil is named Punjab Governor. M.O.H. Farook to be Jharkhand Governor. Urmila Patel gets Himachal Pradesh and Shekhar Dutta Chattisgarh.
&
E.S.L. Narasimhan is shifted to the Andhra Pradesh Raj Bhavan, Prabha Rau is to be Rajasthan Governor and K. Sankaranarayanan is made Maharashtra Governor.
Jan 17:
Jyoti Basu (95), veteran Marxist leader and Chief Minister of West Bengal for 23 years (june 1977 – November 2000) dies of septicaemia due to pneumonia resulting in multi-organ failure at a private hospital in Kolkata after battling for life over the last 17 days.
&
Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav accepts Amar Singh’s resignation.
Jan 19:
CPI (M) Patriarch Jyoti Basu is given a state funeral with military honours in Kolkata.
&
Cinematographer V.K. Murthy is chosen for the 2008 Dada Saheb Phalke Lifetime Achievement Award.
Jan 20:
The Osmania University campus in Hyderabad witnesses see-saw battles even as all the 10 districts in Telangana region observe a bandh against the delay in bifurcating the state.
&
India and Malaysia sign an extradition treaty, an MoU on higher education after talks between Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Mohammad Najib Tun Abdul Razak, in New Delhi.
&
Pilot error led to the crash of the then Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy’s helicopter on September 2, 2009, says the R.K. Tyagi probe panel report.
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