Events; Appointments; Etc.: December 2009

APPOINTED; ELECTED; Etc. Shibhu Soren: JMM chief, he has been elected as the Chief Minister of Jharkhand. Sushma Swaraj: BJP leader, she is the new leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha. Nitin Gadkari: He has been elected as the President of BJP. Kaushik Basu: He has been appointed Chief Economic Advisor in the Finance Ministry in place of Arvind Virmani, who has joined the International Monetary Fund as an Executive Director. RESIGNED N.D. Tiwari: Governor of Andhra Pradesh, a day after his pictures in a sex romp were flashed in the media. Lal Krishan Advani: Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha. DISTINGUISHED VISITORS Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck: King of Bhutan. Yukio Hatoyama: Prime Minister of Japan. Herve Morin: Defence Minister of France. Robert Zoellick: President of World Bank. DIED Bina Rai: Legendary actress who charmed Indian audiences with her performance in 'Anarkali' and 'Taj Mahal'. She was 78. S.K. Singh: Governor of Rajasthan. He was 77. Paul Samuelson: Nobel economics laureate whose work helped form the basis of modern economics. He was 94. EVENTS DECEMBER 4—Over 40 people are killed as militants storm a mosque popular with army officers in Pakistan's garrison city of Rawalpindi. 4—The Nepal government, headed by Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, holds a historic meeting at the base camp of Mt. Everest, amid freezing temperatures, to highlight the danger posed by global warming to the Himalayas. 5— A massive blast triggered by fireworks display causes a stampede in a packed Russian nightclub in the Ural mountain city of Perm, killing at least 109 and wounding 130 others. 7—A landmark and largest ever UN climate summit opens at Copenhagen, Denmark. 8—A series of five coordinated attacks strike Baghdad leaving 118 people dead. 9—Succumbing to pressure, the Union government concedes to the demand for a separate State of Telangana for which the process will be initiated and an appropriate resolution will be moved in Andhra Assembly in due course. 15—At least 33 persons are killed in a powerful car bomb blast outside the home of a senior PML-N leader in Punjab province of Pakistan. 21—Snow and freezing temperatures cause transport chaos across Europe. 28—At least 32 people are killed in a suicide attack on a Muharram procession in Karachi, Pakistan. 31—A suicide bomber penetrates army base in Afghanistan killing seven CIA men and five Canadians. MILESTONES Ben Bernanke: US Federal Reserve Bank Chairman, he has been named as the "Person of the Year, 2009" by the Time magazine, for helping guide USA through financial turmoil. Jaspinder Grewal: Patiala engineer who now resides in Chicago he is the youngest presenter at the US National Health IT Summit 2010 and the National HIPAA Summit 2010. HIPAA is the world's biggest event as far as Healthcare Information Technology is concerned. Kaiane Aldorino: Miss Gibraltar, she has won the 2009 Miss World crown in a ceremony held at Johannesburg, South Africa. Miss Mexico Perla Beltran finished second, while Miss South Africa Tatum Keshwar was third.

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with warm regards

Harish Sati
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)
Maidan Garhi, New Delhi-110068

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