Government carries out bureaucratic reshuffle.

Bangalore's IT.com 200 fair opens.

India ask the EU to refund the antidumping duties collected on bed linen exports and provide legitimate market access immediately in line with WTO dispute settlement panel's recommendation.

Government decides to invite bids for the appointment of an advisor for disinvesting 33.58 per cent stake in IBM Co. Ltd. To a strategic partner.

Biggest ever congregation of Sikh in Panja Sahab and Nankana Sahab from November 6 to 13 in Pakistan.

Union Cabinet okays direct-to-home (DTH) with 49 per cent foreign stake ceiling. Foreign investors to be permitted to bring in up to 20 per cent in FDI while the rest would be in the form of NRI, OCB and FII investments.

Petrol to cost 31 paise more in Delhi.

Former Secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs, E.A.S. Sarma, resigns.

Board of Control of Cricket in India suspends five cricketers - Mohammad Azharuddin, Ajay Jadeja, Nayan Mongia, Ajay Sharma and Manoj Prabhakar - for a period of 15 days.

Suraj Bhan is appointed Governor of Himachal Pradesh and Vishnu Kant Shastri is appointed of Uttar Pradesh.

Fifty armed forces personnel are honoured for acts of outstanding courage in New Delhi.

Shia leader and brother of a Jammu and Kashmir Minister, Aga Syed Mehdi and six persons are killed in a landmine explosion on Srinagar-Gulmarg road in Kashmir.

Forty-four people, including 25 militants and eight securitymen, were killed and 45 injured in militancy-related incidents in Jammu and Kashmir.

Press Information Bureau and RIA Novosti Agencyof Russia sign an agreement on cooperation in the field of information exchange.

Payload operations of multipurpose satellite Insat 2B is hit by snag.

Germany offers free education in science, technology and humanities to Indians.

Government to observe 'Information Technology Year' from November 21.

Buddhadev Bhattacharya is sworn-in as West Bengal Chief Minister, heading a 42-member Left Front coalition ministry.

H.K. Due, Press Advisor to Prime Minister, Ramoji Rao and P. Sainath are the winners of the B.D. Goenka Award for excellence in journalism for the year 1998-99.

Bharat Ratna and architect of green revolution in India, 90, passes away in Chennai.

Supreme Court blocks release of Veerappan's aides from Karnataka and Tamil Nadu jails.

Prime Minister expands his Council of Ministers by inducting two Cabinet Ministers and one Minister of State.

Uttaranchal, the 27^th State of India is born. BJP leader Nityanand Swamy is sworn as the first Chief Minister of the State.

Samsung Electronics of Korea announces a $35 million investment in India.

Government announces setting up of a tri-services command on the strategically located Andaman and Nicobar Islands to clamp down on increasing arms and nacotics.

Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Chief Mohammad Yasin Malik is arrested in Jammu.

Union Cabinet approves the signing and ratification of the agreement to establish an advisory centre on WTO law. By becoming a member of the WTO law centre, India would get certain legal services free and support in WTO dispute settlement proceedings at discounted rates.

President appoints Mr. Justice Nayaka Yellappa Hanumanthappa, judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, to be the Acting Chief Justice of the same court.

Government revises the Exim Policy and permits free export of leather, which would now be governed by Export Duty norms to make them WTO compatible.

India and Singapore sign a Memorandum of Understanding to set up a task force on economic cooperation.

Union Minister of State for Defence Harin Pathak tenders his resignation to Prime Minister.

Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited announces reduction of more than 75 per cent in tariffs for Internet leased lines and international private leased circuits, with effect from next January.

Indian Air Force helicopter, carrying 12 persons on board, crashes in Gujarat.

CBI raid the premises of Doordarshan officials and private television firms in connection with investigations in granting of telecasting and marketing rights for sports events to private firms.

India wins Cricket Test match over Bangladesh in Dhaka.

World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn indicates that World Bank is ready to increase lending to India.

Jharkhand, 28^th State of the Indian Union is born.

Government gives Hurriyat Conference leader Abdul Gani Lone a passport to travel to Pakistan for the marriage of his son.

India and China exchange maps of themiddle sector of a disputed border for the first time during the eighth meeting of experts in Beijing.

Kannada Filmstar Dr. Rajkumar is released after 107 days in the custody of bandit Veerappan.

Sonia Gandhi is elected the President of the Congress party.

India calls off its cricket tour of Pakistan.

Government and financial institutions agrees on new payment security system for power sector.

Israel pulls back tanks from friction points and Palestinian police restrains rock throwers, in a first tentative steps to carry out a truce agreement reached by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and former Israeli Prime Minister.

Fijian army seizes back control of its main barracks after a day of gunbattles with mutinous troops.

New Democratic Yugoslavia is admitted into the United Nations.

Sixty two Tamil Tigers are killed in aerial and naval raids by Sri Lankan army.

Myanmar assures India that it would not allow its territory to be used by extremists for anti-India activities.

Yugoslav parliament approves new federal government, 40 days after an election.

A Czech astronomer discovers a comet circling the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

At least 200 people are killed in a petrol tanker fire in Nigeria.

First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton scores a historic victory by winning the US Senate seat from New York and becomes the first wife of a President ever elected to public office.

South Koreain Daewoo Motor is declared bankrupt.

Pakistan bans entry of Afghan refugees and orders strict vigilance at all the entry points bordering Afghanistan.

 

- One hundred seventy two people are killed in Austrian train fire.

Doha, capital of Qatar to stage the 2006 Asian Games. Doha beat Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and New Delhi after three rounds of polling by 42-member OCA.

The hijacker of Russian plane with 58 aboard surrenders in Israel.

US Presidency issue reaches the Florida Supreme Court for the first time in a dispute over manual recounts in Florida.

 

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