National August 2009
B.C. Tripathi takes over as the Chairman and Managing Director of GAIL (India).
The Rajya Sabha passes the Constitution (109th Amendment) Bill 2009 that seeks extension of reservation of seats for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies for another 10 years.
Parliament adopts The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill, 2009.
A U.P. NGO Nirantar, which runs Khabar Lahariya, a fortnightly newspaper in Hindi bags the UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize 2009.
India and China decide to set up a hotline between Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Wen Jiabao as a confidence building measure at the 13th round of boundary talks in New Delhi.
The Centre agrees to abolish the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council and work for a new set-up in the hill district.
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake in the region of Andaman Islands causes aftershocks in many cities in the southern and eastern parts of the country
The Indian Space Research Organisation launches the beta version of ‘Bhuvan', a new web-based 3D mapping tool at the National remote Sensing Centre in Hyderabad. The geo portal can be accessed at http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in
A ‘Heritage Train' with a 1947-made WP 7200 steam engine is flagged off from the Howrah Station, retracing the route the first train of the East India Railway took 155 years ago.
Eminent Sanskrit poet, author of The Ramayana: A Linguistic Study, Satya Vrat Shastri is presented the 42nd Jnanpith Award by the princess of Thailand, Maha Chakri Sirindhorn at a function in New Delhi.
The Union Cabinet gives nod for the setting up of the Indian Community Welfare Fund in 18 Indian missions to help overseas Indians in times of distress.
India and Nepal initial the revised Treaty of Trade and Agreement of Cooperation to Control Unauthorised Trade.
The first indigenously built T-90 S battle tank named Bheesma rolls out of the Avadi Heavy Vehicle Factory in Chenna
The Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change gives “in principle” approval for the National Mission on Enhanced Energy Efficiency.
The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act gets presidential assent.
The UPA government raises reservation for women at all tiers of the panchayati raj system from 33 to at least 50 per cent. Nod to amend Article 243(D) of the Constitution.
The Indian Space Research Organisation loses radio contact with Chandrayaan-1 and the first moon mission ends in ten months instead of its slated life of two years.
The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh dedicates to the nation the Mangala oil field in Barmer, Rajasthan, said to be the largest onshore discovery in the country over two decades.
The Chandrayaan-1 mission is terminated.
The National Stock Exchange launches Interest Rate Futures.
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