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Events Appointments Etc.: Feb-March 2009

The document summarizes key events, appointments, and visitors between February and March 2009. It notes that Zillur Rahman was elected President of Bangladesh, Benjamin Netanyahu was elected Prime Minister of Israel, and several diplomatic appointments were made in India, including Meera Shankar as Ambassador to the USA. Significant events included a mutiny by the Bangladesh Border Guards and collisions between nuclear submarines of the UK and France. The Election Commission of India also announced dates for the national elections.

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Events Appointments Etc.: Feb-March 2009

The document summarizes key events, appointments, and visitors between February and March 2009. It notes that Zillur Rahman was elected President of Bangladesh, Benjamin Netanyahu was elected Prime Minister of Israel, and several diplomatic appointments were made in India, including Meera Shankar as Ambassador to the USA. Significant events included a mutiny by the Bangladesh Border Guards and collisions between nuclear submarines of the UK and France. The Election Commission of India also announced dates for the national elections.

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EVENTS; APPOINTMENTS; ETC.

: FEB-MARCH 2009

APPOINTED; ELECTED; Etc.

Zillur Rahman: He has been elected as the President of Bangladesh.

Benjamin Netanyahu: He has been elected as Prime Minister of Israel.

Navin Chawla: He has been appointed as the Chief Election Commissioner of


India. He will take over from April 20, 2009.

Sharat Sabharwal: He has been appointed as India’s High Commissioner to


Pakistan.

Meera Shankar: She has been appointed as India’s Ambassador to USA.

Pavan K. Varma: He has been appointed as India’s Ambassador to Bhutan.

Dhanendra Kumar: He has been appointed as Chairman of the Competition


Commission of India (CCI).

N.P.S. Aulakh: He has been appointed as the Director General of National Security
Guards (NSG).
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS

Boni Yayi: President of Benin.

Ban Ki-Moon: Secretary-General of United Nations.

Richard Holbrooke: US special envoy

Robert Mueller: Chief of Federal Bureau of Information (FBI) of USA.

EVENTS
FEBRUARY
9—A female Tamil Tiger suicide bomber, hiding among a group of civilians fleeing
Sri Lanka’s war zone, blows herself, killing at least 28 persons and wounding 90.

11—Eight Taliban gunmen wearing suicide vests attack three Afghan government
buildings in a coordinated assault, killing 20 people in the heart of Kabul.

12—Two big communications satellites collide in space, in the first-ever crash of


two intact spacecraft in orbit, shooting out a pair of massive debris clouds.

13—One of India’s flagship trains, Coromandel Express, crashes out of its tracks,
leaving at least 15 people dead and more than 140 injured.

16—In a first-ever such accident a British and a French nuclear submarines—HMS


Vanguard, a Royal Navy’s Trident class, and French Navy’s new Le Tricomphant—
both carrying nuke warheads, are reported to have collided in the Atlantic Ocean,
but there was no loss of life.

18—A Pakistani journalist with Geo TV, Musa Khan Khel, is shot dead in Matta
area of Swat Valley in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), two days after
Islamabad allowed the Taliban to impose Shariat in the area.

20—A suicide bomber kills 30 people in the northwestern Pakistani city of Dera
Ismail Khan.

—At least 38 people are wounded aftern two Tamil Tiger rebel planes raid
Colombo, capital of Sri Lanka, and bomb the country’s tax headquarters.

25—Bangladesh Border Guards (BDR) launch a dramatic mutiny, taking officers


hostage and sparking a gun-battle that leaves many dead.

26—The Mutiny by Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) ends in Dhaka and six other locations
across Bangladesh. The stand-off leaves an estimated 100 people dead.

—The term of the 14th Lok Sabha comes to a friendly end

28—The keel of India’s first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) is laid at the Cochin
Shipyard.

MARCH

2—The Election Commission of India announces the dates for holding elections to
the 15th Lok Sabha. The general elections would be conducted in five phases
between April 16 and May 13, 2009
3—In a brazen attack on a bus carrying Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, a dozen
masked gunmen wound seven players and a British coach and kill at least six
Pakistanis, including five police escort.

6—Liquor baron Vijay Mallya bids over Rs 10 crore to buy the lot of personal
belongings of Mahatma Gandhi that were put on auction by Los Angles- based
film-maker James Otis.

—India successfully tests interceptor missile to engage and destroy “enemy”


missile.

MILESTONES

Prasoon Joshi: Executive chairman of McCann Worldgroup India, he has been


named as part of the ten-member Cannes Titanium and Integrated Jury 2009, a
first for an Indian ad professional.

Justice Kamaljit Singh Garewal: of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, he has
been elected to UN Appeals Tribunal (UNAT) for a seven-year-term beginning July
1, 2009.

Sourabhee Debbraman: of Tripura has bagged the Indian Idol crown 2009. She is
the first girl to win the contest.

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