CURRENT EVENTS APRIL 2010

April 2010

APPOINTED; ELECTED; Etc.

Justice S.H. Kapadia: He has become the 38th Chief Justice of India.
D.M. Jayaratne: He has been appointed Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.
Mukul M. Sangma: He has been appointed as the Chief Minister of Meghalaya.
Gen V.K. Singh: He has taken over as the Chief of Army Staff, Indian Army.
Chirayu Amin: He has been appointed as the interim chairman of Indian Premier League (IPL) by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

RESIGNED

D.D. Lapang: Chief Minister of Meghalaya.
Shashi Tharor: Minister of State for External Affairs in the Union Cabinet.

DISTINGUISHED VISITORS

Admiral Dary Roughead: Chief of the US Navy.

DIED

Lech Kaczynski: President of Poland.
Prabha Rau: Governor of Rajasthan.
C. K. Prahalad: Globally known influential management thinker.

MILESTONES

Manasvi Magmai: Delhi girl, she has been crowned Femina Miss India World. Nicole Faria from Bangalore has won the Miss India Earth title and Neha Hinge has won Miss India International title.
Prasun Chatterjee: An Indian environmental engineering student whose research has contributed to a new way of detecting toxic lead and copper in water, has won one of the highest US research honours. Chatterjee, a research student at the University of Lehigh, Pennsylvania, received the 2010 C. Ellen Gonter Environmental Chemistry Award from the American Chemical Society's (ACS) Environmental Chemistry Division.

EVENTS

APRIL
1—The exercise to conduct the 15th Census of India begins.
6—Seventy three security personnel are killed in the deadliest Naxal strike in the restive Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh.
6—Prime Minister Gordan Brown of UK announces General Elections on May 6; the Parliament is dissolved.
7—Thailand’s embattled Prime Minister declares a state of emergency in Bangkok after protesters storm Parliament in a dramatic escalation of their bid to topple the government.
10—Polish President Lech Kacznski and his wife are among 97 people killed in air crash in western Russia.
14—More than 400 people die as a magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits China’s Qinghai province on the Tibetan plateau.
15—After 18 years of research and testing, the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) first attempt to put a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) powered by an indigenous cryogenic engine ends in failure.
19—The Supreme Court upholds the conviction and life sentence to Manu Sharma for the 1999 murder of model Jessica Lall.