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Thursday, March 24, 2011

Updates of May

May9
India begins year-long celebrations of Rabindranath Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary.

May11
The Supreme upholds quota in local bodies.
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Justice K.G.Balakrshnan retries as Chief Justice of India.

May12
Justice Sarosh Homi Kapadia is sworn in the 38th Chief Justice of India.

May13
Ketan Desai resigns as Medical Council of India President.

May15
President signs ordinance empowering the government to dissolve the MCI.
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The former Vice-President and three time Chief Minister of Rajasthan Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (86), dies of heart attack in jaipur.

May18
President Pratibha Patil gives assent to the revival of the Tamil Nau Legislative Council.

May20
The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court frees BJP leaders L.K.Advani, M.M.Joshi and others of conspiracy charge in the Babri Masjid demolition case.

May21
Madan Tamang, president of the Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League, is fatally stabbed in Darjeeling.

May22
One hundred and fifty eight persons are killed as an Air India Express plane from Dubai overshoots the table-top runway at the Mangalore airport splits, and plunges into a valley. Eight persons survive miraculously.

May23
The first indigenously built Light Combat helicopter makes its inaugural flight in Bangalore.

May24
The BJP withdraws support to the JMM-led government in Jharkhand.
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Abdul Samad Siddi Bawa, the ‘Prime Suspect’ in the February 13 German Bakery blast in Pune is arrested by Maharastra policae at Mangalore’s Bajpe airport.

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