CURRENT AFFAIRS IN ONE LINE (JAN – MAR 2019)
JANUARY
Jan. 1: Kerala women under the aegis of the LDF form a 620 km human wall for gender equality from Kasaragod to Thiruvananthapuram.The ban on single use plastics takes effect in Tamil Nadu.
Jan. 2: Two young women make it to the Sabarimala temple in Kerala, triggering Statewide protests.
Jan. 3: Scores are injured and 79 KSRTC buses damaged in violence during the Kerala hartal.
Jan. 4:The Lok Sabha passes The Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill.
Jan. 5: Businessman Vijay Mallya becomes the first person to be declared a fugitive economic offender by a special court in Mumbai.
Jan. 7: The Lok Sabha passes the Personal Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2018, removing leprosy as a ground for divorce.
Jan. 8:The Supreme Court “rein states” CBI Director Alok Verma.
The Lok Sabha passes the Citizen ship (Amendment) Bill, 2019. Protests rock the northeastern States.
The Lok Sabha passes the Constitution (124th Amendment) Bill, 2019, allowing 10% quota in jobs and education for general category candidates from economically weaker sections.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami announces creation of Kallakurichi district by bifurcating Villupuram district.
Jan. 9: Parliament passes Bill to provide 10% quota for the poor, after Rajya Sabha nod.
General strike hits transport, banking and postal services in many parts of the nation for the second day.
Jan. 10: A panel led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi removes Alok Verma as CBI Director. M. Nageswara Rao again appointed interim Director.
Jan. 13: Noted English writer Neelum Saran Gour, author of Re-quiem in Raga Jankibags The Hindu Prize 2018 for fiction at The Hindu Lit for Life 2019 in Chennai.
Jan. 17: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to buy 36 Rafale jets from France instead of the 126 asked for by the IAF pushed the price of each jet by 41.42%, says The Hindu in an exclusive newsbreak.
The Supreme Court lifts curbs on dance bars in Mumbai in force since 2005.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami releases commemorative coins to mark MGR’s birth centenary at a function in Chennai. An arch is unveiled on Kamarajar Salai.
Jan. 25: President Ram Nath Kovind confers Bharat Ratna on former President Pranab Mukherjee, and social activist Nanaji Deshmukh and Assamese musician Bhupen Hazari ka (both posthumous).
Teejan Bai, Chhattisgarh folk artist; Ismail Omar Guelleh, President of Djibouti; Anilkumar Manibhai Naik, executive chairman of L&T; and Balwant Moreshwar Purandare, theatre artist from Maharashtra are named for the Padma Vibhushan.
Former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan, actor Mohanlal, mountaineer Bachendri Pal, journalist Kuldip Nayar (posthumous), Akali Dal leader Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, prominent among 14 Padma Bhushan awardees.
Former Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar; cricketer Gautam Gambhir; composer Shankar Mahadevan; actors Prabhu Deva, Manoj Bajpayee, and Kader Khan (posthu mous), physicist Rohini Godbole prominent among 94 Padma Shri awardees.
Jan. 26: India’s military might and many facets of Mahatma Gandhi’s life are showcased at the 70th Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi. An all women contingent of the Assam Rifles makes its debut.
Jan. 30: The ICICI Bank decides to sack former MD and CEO Chanda Kochhar after the B.N. Srikrishna panel finds her guilty of violating the bank’s code of conduct.
A CBI special court in Guwahati Security men inspecting the blast site in Lethpora area in Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir. Abhinandan Varthaman sentences NDFB chairman Ranjan Daimary and nine others to lifer for their role in the October 30, 2008 serial blasts in Assam.
FEBRUARY
Feb. 3: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee goes on in definite sit in in Kolkata after the CBI tries to question the city Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar in connection with the Saradha and Rose Valley chit fund scam cases.Feb. 5: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ends sit in, following the Supreme Court order restraining the CBI from taking any coercive action against Rajeev Kumar.
Feb. 6: The Supreme Court re serves orders on 65 review petitions seeking reconsideration of its ruling lifting the bar on menstruating wo men from entering the Sabarimala temple in Kerala.
Feb. 10:The entire 45 km stretch of Phase I of Chennai Metro Rail be comes operational.
The quota stir by the Gujjar Aark shan Sangharsh Samiti in Rajasthan turns violent.
The Modi government dropped provisions for anticorruption penalties and did away with an escrow account for routing payments days before signing the inter governmental agreement on the Rafale deal, says The Hindu in an exclusive report.
Feb. 13:The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 and the triple talaq bill lapse, as the government fails to push them through Rajya Sabha.
The Rajya Sabha passes the Personal Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2018 removing leprosy as ground for divorce.
The Rajasthan Assembly passes an Amendment Bill giving 5 per cent reservation in government jobs and education to Gujjars and four other nomadic communities.
Puducherry Chief Minister, V. Narayanasamy, Ministers and MLAs go on an indefinite dharna in front of the Raj Nivas in protest against Lt. Governor Kiran Bedi’s style of functioning.
Feb. 14:At least 40 CRPF person nel are killed and 44 others injured after a JaisheMohammed suicide bomber rams his explosives laden vehicle into a bus in the Lethpora area of Pulwama district on the Srinagar-Jammu Highway.
A threejudge Bench to look into the question whether the Delhi government has control over service matters, after a two judge Bench of the Supreme Court delivers a split verdict.
Feb. 15: India revokes the MFN status given to Pakistan in 1996.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi flags off the inaugural trip of the Vande Bharat Express, connecting Delhi and Varanasi at the New Delhi railway station.
Flight Lieutenant Hina Jaiswal be comes the IAF’s first woman flight engineer.
Feb. 16: Gujjars call off quota stir. Feb. 17: The Kashmir Valley observes a shutdown over the harassment of Kashmiri students and traders in other States.
Vande Bharat Express begins first commercial run from New Delhi.
Feb. 18: The Supreme Court sets aside the NGT order to allow re opening of the Sterlite copper plant in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, shut down on April 9, 2018.
Puducherry Chief Minister ‘temporarily suspends’ his agitation.
Feb. 20: The Supreme Court holds Reliance Communications Ltd. and its chairman Anil Ambani and two other group firms guilty of contempt of court. Asks R Com to pay ₹453 crore to Swiss telecom equipment major Ericsson.
Feb. 23: Tashi Tobgyal wins the Photo of The Year award at the first edition of The Hindu Photo journalism Awards in Chennai. In all, 12 photojournalists from across the country get awards.
Feb. 25: Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates the National War Memorial near the India Gate in New Delhi.
Feb. 26: The IAF drops five one tonne bombs on the JaisheMo hammed’s ‘biggest’ training camp in Balakot in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakthunkhwa province that housed 200325 militants.
Feb. 27: An IAF plane is shot down and its pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman is taken into custody by Pakistan Army near the LoC after a major aerial confrontation.
Kanthan the Lover of Colour is chosen as the Best Film in the Kerala State Film Awards for 2018. Soubin Shahir (Sudani from Nigeria) and Jayasurya (Captain and Njan Mary-kutty) share the Best Actor honours. Nimisha Sajayan wins the Best Actor (female) Award for Chola and Oru Kuprasiddha Payyan. Shyamaprasad bags the Best Director Award for Oru Njayarazhcha.
Feb. 28: The Delhi High Court upholds the Election Commission decision to allot the ‘two leaves’ symbol and the name ‘AIADMK’ to the organization led by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami and Deputy Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam.
MARCH
March 1:Pakistan frees Abhinandan Varthaman at the Wagah border.March 4: Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches National Com mon Mobility Card at a function in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
March 5: Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches the national pension scheme for workers of the un organized sector, at Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
March 6: Prime Minister Narendra announces decision to name Central Railway Station in Chennai after Tamil Nadu’s former Chief Minister MGR.
March 8:The Supreme Court ap points a three member panel to mediate in the Ayodhya dispute.
The NCLT clears ArcelorMittal’s ₹42,000 core resolution plan to take over the debt-ridden Essar Steel in Gujarat.
March 11: A case of alleged serial sexual assault and blackmail of scores of women by a gang in Pollachi, Tamil Nadu triggers outrage.
March 13: The Pollachi sexual as sault and blackmail case is handed over to the CBI.
March 15: Ramon Magsaysay awardee Bezwada Wilson gets The Hindu Business Line Changemaker Award at a function in New Delhi.
March 16: President Ram Nath Kovind presents the Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri awards for 2019 at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.
March 18: Anil Ambani avoids jail term as R Com pays ₹460 crore to Swedish firm Ericsson.
March 19: Pramod Sawant is sworn in as the 11th Chief Minister of Goa.
Former Supreme Court judge Pinaki Chandra Ghose is appointed the nation’s first Lok Pal.
March 20: Swami Aseemanand and three other accused in the February 18, 2007 Samhita train blasts case are acquitted for want of evidence by a special NIA court in Panchkula, Haryana.
March 21: The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court sentences nine people to life term for the May 9, 2007 attack on the office of the Tamil daily Dinakaran in Madurai in which three staff were killed, nine years after their acquittal by a trial court.
March 22: Trinamool Congress drops the C tag from its logo, banners, posters and communication material, 21 years since launch.
SCARF founder Sharada Menon is conferred The Hindu Lifetime Achievement Award at The Hindu World of Women 2019 Awards in Chennai.
March 23: Vice Admiral Karambir Singh is appointed the next Chief of the Naval Staff.
March 27: India successfully conducts an Anti-Satellite missile test, from the Dr. Abdul Kalam Is land launch complex in Odisha.
March 29: The Supreme Court upholds the life imprisonment awarded to P. Rajagopal, proprietor of Saravana Bhavan hotel chain in Tamil Nadu for murdering an employee 18 years ago.
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