December, 2013
31st December:
• Ashraf Jehan
sworn-in as the first female judge at Pakistan’s national
sharia court.
• Union Minister Sashi Tharoor named as the
Person of the Year by PETA – India.
30th December:
• The foreign
investment regulator has approved 680 crore investment plan by
Tesco.
• The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB)
cleared a decision on Vodafone Group Plc's around Rs.
10,000-crore plan to take full ownership of its local unit.
•
Michael Schumacher in critical condition after he fell and hit
his head on a rock while skiingw with severe bruising on his
brain.
• India lost Test Series against South Africa 1-0.
29th December:
• A female suicide
bomber killed at least 13 people at a train station in the
Russian city of Volgograd.
• China's top legislature has
formally adopted a resolution easing the country's one-child
policy allowing couples to have two children if either parent is
an only child.
• Gauhar Khan wins Big Boss 7.
28th December:
• Arvind Kejriwal takes
oath as Delhi CM along with six others as ministers.
• 26
passengers were killed after a coach of a train caught fire en
route from Bangalore to Nanded in Maharashtra.
• Bollywood
actor Farooq Shaikh died at the age of 65 after heart attack in
Dubai.
27th December:
• Himachal High Court
bans food items packed in plastic.
• Former DGP of Assam
Police J.N.Chaudhary got appointed as new head of National
Security Guard (NSG).
26th December:
• A metropolitan court
in Ahmedabad rejected Zakia Jafri's petition against Gujarat
Chief Minister Narendra Modi in connection with a 2002 communal
riots case.
• Government gave the go ahead to grant
constitutional status to a proposed Commission for appointment
and transfer of judges to the higher judiciary to ensure that
its composition cannot be altered through an ordinary
legislation.
25th December:
• South Africa's
all-rounder Jacques Kallis will retire from test and first-class
cricket after the Boxing Day match against India in Durban.
24th December:
• Former Gujrat Home
Minister Amit Shah gets clean chit from CBI in Ishrat Jahan
case.
• Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the assault
rifle AK47 died at the age of 94.
• Vinod Kumar Duggal
appointed the new Governor of Manipur.
• Kidambi Srikanth and
PV Sindhu won the men’s and women’s titles at the 78th Senior
National Badminton Championship at New Delhi.
23rd December:
• Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)
decided to form coalition Government in Delhi. Arvind Kejriwal
will be the new Chief Minister.
• India today test-fired its
nuclear-capable Agni-III ballistic missile with a strike range
of over 3,000 km.
• India evacuated all its oil employees
from South Sudan and shut down oilfields amid escalating
violence.
• Subrahmanyam Jaishankar became the Ambassador of
US.
22nd December:
• England spinner
Graeme Swann announced retirement from international and
first-class cricket.
• World's first artificial heart
transplant done successfully by French doctors at Georges
Pompidou Hospital in Paris. The artificial heart is designed by
French biomedical firm Carmat.
• Zaheer Khan became the
fourth and only the second Indian bowler pacer to take 300
wickets in Test matches.
21st December:
• Minister of State for
Environment and Forests Jayanthi Natarajan resigned from her
post. Petroleum Minister M Veerappa Moily has been given
additional charge of the environment ministry.
• Usha Sangwan
appointed first woman Managing Director of Life Insurance
Corporation.
20th December:
• Two United Nations
peacekeepers from India were killed and a third wounded in South
Sudan.
• India's indigenously designed fighter aircraft Tejas
get the second Initial Operational Clearance certificate.
19th December:
• Pakistan appointed
Abdul Basit as its new high commissioner to India.
• Sahitya
Akademi Award for 2013 announced. Bollywood lyricist Javed
Akhtar, Bengali poet Subodh Sarkar and Bodo poet Anil Boro are
among the winners.
• India team wins their first ever team
titles in Asia-Pacific Junior Golf Championship.
• South
India’s first high altitude cricket stadium inaugurated in
Krishnagiri in Waynad district of Kerala.
18th December:
• Lokshabha passed the
Lokpal and Lokayukta Bill that provides for formation of
anti-graft ombudsman.
• Anna Hazare broke his nine-day fast
shortly after Lok Sabha passed the Lokpal Bill.
• BCCI
announced Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement award for the year
2013 to Kapil Dev for his contribution to cricket.
17th December:
• Rajya Sabha passed
Lokpal Bill.
• German Chancellor Angela Merkel was re-elected
for a third term with a vote in the lower house of parliament.
• The Smt Chandaben Mohanbhai Patel Industrial Research Award
for Women Scientists for the year 2011 has been conferred on Dr
M Lakshmi Kantam, Director, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical
Technology, Hyderabad.
16th December:
• Lieutenant Governor
Najeeb Jung has recommended the imposition of President's rule
in Delhi as one of the options to break the deadlock over
formation of a new government, with no party ready yet to assume
power.
• The star of the 1962 film epic “Lawrence of Arabia”
Peter O’Toole died in a London hospital at the age of 81.
•
The International Cricket Council suspended West Indies'
off-spinner Shane Shillingford from bowling in international
cricket for his illegal bowling action.
15th December:
• South Africa's first
black President Nelson Mandela laid to rest with full state
honours in his childhood village at Qunu in South Africa's
Eastern Cape province.
• Union Labour Minister Sis Ram Ola
died after a prolonged illness in Medanta Hospital in Gurgaon,
Haryana.
• Irrfan Khan wins the best actor award at the 10th
edition of Dubai International Film Festival for the film The
Lunchbox .
14th December:
• Shivraj Chouhan sworn
in as Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister for third consecutive times.
• Lal Thanhawla sworn-in as the Chief Minister of Mizoram for
second successive term.
13th December:
• Vasundhara Raje sworn
in as Chief Minister of Rajasthan.
• The anti-corruption
Lokpal Bill introduced in the Rajya Sabha.
• Maharashtra
assembly passed the anti-black magic Bill that seeks to curb
black magic and other superstitious practices.
• Cheteshwar
Pujara wins the 'Emerging Cricketer of the Year' trophy in the
ICC annual awards.
12th December:
• Raman Singh sworn in
as Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh.
• South Africa wins the
three match ODI series 2-0 against India.
• Former Australian
wicketkeeper-batsman Adam Gilchrist, and former Pakistan fast
bowler Waqar Younis inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame.
11th December:
• Indian Air force
ended the service of India’s first supersonic jet warplane
Mig-21 FL.
• Uruguay became the first country to legalize the
growing, sale and smoking of marijuana.
• Retired Gujarat
high court judge DP Buch sworn in as the Gujrat's fourth
Lokayukta.
• Time magazine named Pope Francis as its person
of the year.
10th December:
• The Supreme Court
ruled that red beacon be allowed to only Constitutional
authorities which include the President, Prime Minister, cabinet
ministers, governors, the Chief Justice of India, Supreme Court
judges and the heads of both houses of Parliament to prevent its
misuse by local politicians flaunting it as a status symbol.
• President Pranab Mukherjee arrived in Johannesburg to attend a
memorial service in honour of South Africa's former President
Nelson Mandela.
• Anna Hazare started indefinite hunger
strike here to press the government for immediate passage of the
Jan Lokpal Bill in winter session of Parliament.
• The former
Foreign Secretary of India Ranjan Mathai took over as the
India's High Commissioner to the UK.
• Lionel Messi, Franck
Ribery and Cristiano Ronaldo were shortlisted for this year's
Ballon d'Or Prize.
9th December:
• Congress wins the
Mizoram State Assembly election with 31 seats.
• Lok Sabha
adopted the 2G JPC report which blaming former telecom minister
A. Raja for the faulty allocation of spectrum and exonerating
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P.
Chidambaram of any wrongdoing.
8th December:
• BJP wins the Rajasthan
State Assembly election with 162 seats. Congress wins 21 seats.
• In Madhya Pradesh State Assembly election, BJP gets clear
majority with 164 seats.
• In Delhi State Assembly election
BJP wins 32 seats while Aam Aadmi Party wins 28 seats.
• In
Chhattisgarh State Assembly election, BJP gets 49 and Congress
gets 39 seats.
• Indian Olympic Association (IOA) amended its
constitution to bar charge-framed persons from contesting
elections in an act of compliance to get the country's Olympic
ban overturned.
7th December:
• FIFA declares 2014
FIFA World Cup football draw to be held in Brazil.
• Late
sitar legend Pandit Ravi Shankar received a posthumous
nomination in the 56th Annual Grammy Awards for his album "The
Living Room Sessions Part 2" in the World Music Album category.
• Miss Venezuela Alyz Henrich wins Miss Earth, 2013 at the
Versailles Palace, Philippines.
6th December:
• India approved the
draft of a multilateral trade reforms package at the World Trade
Organization, clearing the way for the first global trade deal
in almost two decades.
• MS Dhoni becomes India's highest
scoring ODI captain leaving behind former captain Mohammad
Azharuddin's tally of 5239 in 174 matches. Dhoni reached 5278
runs in his 152nd ODI.
• India will host the Under-17 FIFA
World Cup in 2017.
5th December:
• South African
anti-apartheid hero and former President Nelson Mandela died at
the aged 95 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
• The winter
session of Parliament will begins.
• A parliamentary bill for
the creation of a new Telangana state, with 10 districts, has
been cleared by the Union Cabinet.
• European Union (EU)
imposed ban on all airlines from Nepal from flying into the
28-nation bloc under EU air safety list for unsafe carriers.
• India has been ranked 98th in the Forbes list of world's best
countries for doing business.
• India becomes the highest run
scoring team in ODI history while Australia are currently second
team with 1,82,881 runs.
4th December:
• Around 66 per cent
polling recorded in the Delhi Assembly election.
3rd December:
• India successfully
test fired its surface to surface ballistic missile Prithvi-ll
from Chandipur in the Balesore district, Odisha.
• Seven
policemen were killed in a landmine blast in Bihar.
•
Mahendra Singh Dhoni named captain of ICC's one-day
international team and England captain Alastair Cook named
skipper of the International Cricket Council's (ICC) test team
of the year. Mahendra Singh Dhoni also wins the International
Cricket Council (ICC) People’s Choice Award for the year 2013.
2nd December:
• The Supreme Court
issued notice to the centre on a petition seeking to strike down
the provisions of Juvenile Justice Act that bars criminal courts
from trying juvenile offenders.
• India's current account
deficit falls to $5.2 billion in July-September quarter.
•
Gaganjeet Bhullar wins his fifth Asian Tour victory by winning
Indonesia Open.
1st December:
• Indian shuttler PV
Sindhu wins the women's singles title at the Macau Open Grand
Prix Gold Tournament after defeating Li Michelle of Canada
21-15, 21-12.
• Actor Paul Walker, best known for his roles
in the "Fast and the Furious" action movies, died in a car crash
in Southern California.
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