K.R.
Narayanan passes away:
The former President, K.R. Narayanan, died on Nov 9th at
the Army Research and Referral Hospital after a brief illness.
As the nation's tenth President he held office for five
years from July 25, 1997.He was 85 and is survived by his
wife and two daughters.
K.R.
Narayanan
International
Container Transhipment& NTPC's Kayankulam
Thermal Power Station
The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, launched two major
projects in Kerala:The International Container Transhipment
Terminal and the second stage of the NTPC's Kayankulam
Thermal Power Station at two separate functions in Kochi
and Kayankulam.For
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Manmohan
Singh
The
budget for 2005-06 : The
Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram, presented the budget
for 2005-06, the highlights being nil tax for income up
to Rs. 1 lakh, no rebate under section 88 and abolition
of section 80 L. Allocation for defence has also been
raised to Rs. 83,000 crores.
P.
Chidambaram
India's
Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle: India's
Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C6, rose majestically
from the spaceport at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. It injected
two satellites, CARTOSAT-1 and HAMSAT, precisely into their
orbits. On May 5. PSLV-C6 put the 1,560-kg CARTOSAT-1 into
orbit at a height of 627 km, 1,058 seconds after lift-off.
A minute later, it slotted the micro-satellite HAMSAT, weighing
43 kg, into a similar orbit.
PSLV-C6
The
Maharashtra floods:: The eighth heaviest ever recorded 24-hour rainfall
which lashed the metropolis on 26 July 2005, and intermittently
continued for the next day was witnessed in Mumbai. Many
parts of the Indian state of Maharashtra including large
areas of the metropolis of Mumbai (formerly Bombay), a
city located on the coast of the Arabian Sea, on the western
coast of India,got submerged in which at least 1,000 people
died.
Maharashtra
flood
Chennai
Rains:
Torrential rain, caused by a deep depression over the
Bay of Bengal, disrupted life in Chennai and northern
Tamil Nadu.
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