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List of events
Events in the year
2003 in the Republic of India
.
Incumbents
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Governors
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- Andhra Pradesh
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C. Rangarajan
(until 3 January),
Surjit Singh Barnala
(starting 3 January)
- Arunachal Pradesh
?
Arvind Dave
(until 12 June),
V. C. Pande
(starting 12 June)
- Assam
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- Bihar
?
V. C. Pande
(until 12 June),
M R Jois
(starting 12 June)
- Chhattisgarh
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D. N. Sahay
(until 1 June),
Krishna Mohan Seth
(starting 2 June)
- Goa
?
Kidar Nath Sahani
- Gujarat
?
Sunder Singh Bhandari
(until 7 May),
Kailashpati Mishra
(starting 7 May)
- Haryana
?
Babu Parmanand
- Himachal Pradesh
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Suraj Bhan
(until 7 May),
Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje
(starting 8 May)
- Jharkhand
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M. Rama Jois
(until 11 June),
Ved Marwah
(starting 11 June)
- Jammu and Kashmir
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Girish Chandra Saxena
(until 4 June),
S. K. Sinha
(starting 4 June)
- Karnataka
?
T. N. Chaturvedi
- Kerala
?
Sikander Bakht
(starting 18 April)
- Madhya Pradesh
?
Bhai Mahavir
(until 6 May),
Ram Prakash Gupta
(starting 6 May)
- Maharashtra
?
Mohammed Fazal
- Manipur
?
Ved Marwah
(until 12 June),
Arvind Dave
(starting 12 June)
- Meghalaya
?
M.M. Jacob
- Mizoram
?
Amolak Rattan Kohli
- Nagaland
?
Shyamal Datta
- Odisha
?
M. M. Rajendran
- Punjab
?
J. F. R. Jacob
(until 8 May),
Om Prakash Verma
(starting 8 May)
- Rajasthan
?
- Sikkim
?
V. Rama Rao
- Tamil Nadu
?
P. S. Ramamohan Rao
- Tripura
?
Krishna Mohan Seth
(until 31 May),
Dinesh Nandan Sahay
(starting 1 June)
- Uttar Pradesh
?
Vishnu Kant Shastri
- Uttarakhand
?
Surjit Singh Barnala
(until 7 January),
Sudarshan Agarwal
(starting 7 January)
- West Bengal
?
Viren J. Shah
Events
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- National income -
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27,925,301 million
January - June
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- 26 January ? The president of
Iran
,
Mohammad Khatami
, is the guest at the Republic Day celebration.
- 5?9 February ?
Aero-India show
is held in
Bangalore
.
- March ? India put up a great show at the ICC Cricket World Cup in South Africa after poor performances in the past and go on to the Finals. They were defeated by Australia in the Finals.
- 13 March -
Bombing
in
Mumbai Suburban Railway
at
Mulund
- 23 March -
- 18 April ? Prime Minister
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
, at his first rally in
Srinagar
, makes a historic announcement of a peace initiative with Pakistan.
- 31 May ? Prime Minister Vajpayee has the rare honour of joining the head table at the 300th foundation day of
St. Petersburg
with
Vladimir Putin
and
George W. Bush
.
- 22 June ? Vajpayee is in China. India concedes that
Tibet
is an integral part of China. China agrees to recognise
Sikkim
's accession to India.
July - December
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- 14 July ? India refuses to send troops to
Iraq
.
- 25 August ? 52 killed in
two bomb blasts
in
Mumbai
.
- 24 September ? United States President
George W. Bush
invites Vajpayee to lunch in
New York City
during Vajpayee's US trip. It is considered an important meeting for Indo-US relations. Several deals are struck on civilian nuclear technology, space, hi-tech trade and missile defence.
- 1 October -
People's War Group
carried out a assassination attempt on
N. Chandrababu Naidu
,
Chief minister of Andhra Pradesh
in
Alipiri
using
Claymore mine
.
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- 6 October ? Vajpayee visits
Bali
for the second time in 2 years.
- 22 October ? India announces confidence-building measures with respect to Indo-Pakistani relations: more buses, flights, higher mission strength, etc.
- 15 November ? Vajpayee visits
Syria
.
- 28 November ? Abu Salem, one of India's most wanted fugitives for his alleged role in the
1993 Bombay bombings
, is sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment by a Portuguese court on charges of fraud and resisting arrest. In response, the
Central Bureau of Investigation
announces it will maintain its efforts to seek Salem's deportation to India.
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Births
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Deaths
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- 8 January ?
Mahadeva Subramania Mani
,
entomologist
(born 1908).
- 14 July ?
Leela Chitnis
, actress (born 1909).
- 1 February ?
Kalpana Chawla
, Indian-American Astronaut and first Indian woman to go to space (born
1962
).
- 27 July ?
Henning Holck-Larsen
, engineer, co-founder of
Larsen & Toubro
(born 1907).
- 25 October ?
Pandurang Shastri Athavale
,
philosopher
, spiritual leader,
social reformer
, who founded the
Swadhyay Movement
(born 1920).
- 3 November ?
Narendra Prasad
, actor, playwright, teacher and literary critic (born 1946).
- 21 December ?
G. V. Iyer
, film director (born 1917).
See also
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References
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