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Month
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Date |
Events |
VIP/Star
Happy Birthdays
Bollywood Movies
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1 Jan
12 Sun
DA increase from
Jan 2012 for CG Employees
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New Year's Day [RH]
Expected
DA increase from Jan 2012 for Central
Government Employees and Pensioners
based on CPI-IW released upto Nov 2011 comes to 7 percent; no
upward revision expected
: Click on the "details".
Vidya Balan :
Happy Birthday : 1978 :
Model and Actress. She is the winner of
Filmfare Best Female Debut and
Face of the Year Awards for
"Parineeta"
and Filmfare Best Actress
Award for "Paa".
She will be seen in "Kahaani,
Bihaad, Chenab Gandhi, Chand Bhai and Suryamukhi".
Birth : 1894
Satyendra Nath Bose,
Mathematician (d. 1974)
Happy Birthday : 1950 -
Deepa Mehta,
India-born Canadian Film Director and Screenwriter.
Happy Birthday : 1951
Nana Patekar,
Film and Stage Actor.
Happy Birthday : 1975
Sonali Bendre,
Model and Actress.
Birth : 1978 -
Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda
is a Spiritual guru who teaches meditation and hosts
various meditation retreats, meditation seminar around the
world.
Happy Birthday : 1941 -
Asrani
has acted in over 300 Films over the last 35 years and
also in close to 150 Gujrati films. Filmfare Awards for
best comedian in "Aaj Ki
Taaza Khabar (1973) and Balika Badhu (1976)"
stand in his name.
He will be seen in "Chalta
Hai Yaar, The Legend Of Santa Banta, Be Careful, It'S My
Life, and
Chanchal".
1978 - Air India
Flight 855 Boeing 747 crashed
into the sea, due to instrument failure and pilot
disorientation, off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. |
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2 Jan
12 Mon |
Happy Birthday : 1940
S. R. S. Varadhan,
Indian-American Mathematician. In 2008, the Government of
India awarded him with the Padma Bhushan. Varadhan is a
member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
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03 Jan
12 Tue |
Gul Panag
: Happy Birthday : 1979 - Actress, Model, and former
beauty queen who competed in the Miss Universe pageant.
She will be seen in
Fatso.
Birth Anniversary : 1831 Savitribai
Phule, Female social
activist, first female teacher in India, and first female
poet in Marathi language (d. 1897). |
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3 - 7 Jan
12 |
Cricket
: India's tour of Australia : 3-7 Jan 2012 :
Second Test
: Sydney : 0500 IST |
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04 Jan 12 Wed
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Death Anniversary : 1994 R D Burman,
Musician (b. 1939)
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05 Jan 12 Thu
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Auto
Expo 2012 : Pragati
Maidan, New Delhi : 5 - 11 Jan 2012
Guru
Govind Singh
Jayanti 2012 [RH].
Birth Anniversary : 1592 Shah
Jahan, Mughal Emperor (d.
1666)
Birth Anniversary : 1893
Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian
guru (d. 1952)
Happy Birthday : 1955 -
Mamata Banerjee
is the Chief Minister of West Bengal, assumed office on
18 May 2011, and the founding chairperson of the
Trinamool Congress.
Happy Birthday : 1986
Deepika Padukone, Model and
Actress. She will be seen in "Cocktail,
Race 2 and
Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani".
Uday Chopra
: Happy Birthday : 1973 - Actor, Producer, and Assistant
Director.
Happy Birthday : 1932 -
Kalayan Singh, a politician from the state of Uttar Pradesh. He has
served 3 times as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
Birth Anniversary : 1941
Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi,
Cricketer, nicknamed
Tiger, was the 9th and
last Nawab of Pataudi. Married film actress
Sharmila Tagore
and they are parents of three children :
Saif Ali Khan,
Soha Ali Khan
and Saba Ali Khan
(d. 22 Sep 11). |
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06 Jan 12 Fri
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1929
Mother Teresa
arrived in Calcutta to begin a her work amongst India's
poorest and diseased people.
Happy Birthday : 1959
Kapil Dev, Cricketer
Happy Birthday : 1966 A.
R. Rahman, Composer
Bharatendu
Harishchandra : Death
Anniversary - 1885 - is known as the father of modern
Hindi literature as well as Hindi theatre. Bharatendu
Harishchandra Awards are given by the Ministry of I&B to
promote original writings in Hindi on Journalism and
Mass Communications and other subjects (b. 9 Sep 1850).
Death Anniversary : 1847
Tyāgarāja, Carnatic Classic
Music Composer (b. 1767) |
Bffs :
*
Players
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07 Jan 12 Sat
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Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2012 :
The 10th edition of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD)
Convention will be held in Jaipur from 7-9th January,
2012.
Happy Birthday :
Bipasha Basu, Actress and a former model, she
was the winner of the Ford's Godrej Cinthol Supermodel
contest in 1996.
Happy Birthday : 1948 -
Shobha D้
Columnist and Novelist.
Happy Birthday : 1957 -
Reena Roy
was one of the top Hindi film actresses. She performed
leading roles in many films from 1972 to 1985.
Happy Birthday : 1961 -
Supriya Pathak
Kapur, Actress hailing from a long line of performers.
She is famous for her role in the Indian sitcoms Khichdi
and Idhar Udhar. |
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08 Jan 12 Sun
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No Pants Subway Ride
[11th Annual on 8 Jan 2012] when over 5,000 people will
take off their pants on subways in 48 cities in 22
countries around the world.
Photos |
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09 Jan 12 Mon
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Colors
will launch "Na Bole Tum
Na Maine Kuch Kaha" as
its primetime TV serial starting from 9 Jan 2012 as
weekday 10:30 pm band.
Farhan Akhtar :
Happy Birthday : 1974 - Actor, Director, Producer,
Playback Singer, Lyricist, Screenwriter and TV host. His
forthcoming films are
Talaash (Producer) and
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
(Actor).
Birth Anniversary : 1922 -
Har Gobind Khorana
was an India-born American biochemist who shared the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 for
research that helped to show how the nucleotides in
nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell,
control the cell's synthesis of proteins (d. 9 Nov
2011). |
Full Moon
[13:00 9 Jan 12] |
10
Jan 12 Tue
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First ever awards for comics
industry at
2nd Comic Con
in Feb : Last dated for submission of entries by
10 Jan
2012
: Details available on www.comicconindia.com.
Happy Birthday : 1974 -
Hrithik Roshan,
is an award-winning Actor. We shall see him in "Agneepath,
Krrish 2 and
Main Krishna Hoon".
Gurinder Chadha
: Happy Birthday : 1960 - a British Film Director of
Indian origin. Most of her films explore the lives of
Indians living in the United Kingdom.
Omi Vaidya
: Happy Birthday : 1982 - an Indian American Actor who
is best known for his performance as Chatur Ramalingam
in 3 Idiots.
Economic Times Asia IT Expo
10 - 12 Jan 2012
: Pragati Maidan : New Delhi
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11
Jan 12 Wed
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CAT
results today.
Happy Birthday : 1971 -
Baba Ramdev.
Happy Birthday : 1944 -
Shibu Soren, former Chief
Minister of Jharkhand and President
of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) political party, a
constituent of the UPA.
Happy Birthday : 1973 -
Rahul Sharad Dravid is a
cricketer, and a former captain of the Indian national
cricket team. He is the third Indian batsman, after Sunil
Gavaskar and Sachin Tendulkar, to have scored 10,000 runs
in test cricket.
Death
Anniversary : 1966 -
Lal Bahadur Shastri,
third Prime Minister of India (b. 1904)
Death Anniversary : 1983
Ghanshyam Das Birla,
Industrialist and Educator (b. 1894) |
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12
Jan 12 Thu
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National Youth Day
Arun Govil : Happy
Birthday : 1958 - an Award-winning Actor, Producer and
Director. He has acted in various Hindi, Bhojpuri, Oriya
and Telugu movies. He is best known for playing Rama in
Ramanand Sagar's hit television series Ramayan (1986).
Birth Anniversary : 1863 -
Swami Vivekananda
- born Narendranath Dutta, is the chief disciple of the
19th century mystic Ramakrishna and the founder of
Ramakrishna Mission.
Birth Anniversary : 1917
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,
Spiritualist (d. 2008)
Death Anniversary : 2005
Amrish Puri, Actor (b. 1932)
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13
Jan 12 Fri
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Happy Lohri
Friday the 13th
occurs when the thirteenth
day of a month falls on Friday, which superstition holds
to be a day of bad luck.
Happy Birthday : 1949 :
Rakesh Sharma,
a Squadron Leader in the Indian Air Force, was the first
Indian and 138th person to travel in space. He retired
from the Air force as Wing Commander.
Happy Birthday : 1978
Ashmit Patel,
Actor |
Bffs :
* Chaalis Chauraasi
* Sadda Adda
* Ghost
* Ek Deewana Tha
* Chaar Din Ki Chandni
* Tutiya Dil
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13 - 17 Jan
12 |
Cricket : India's tour of Australia : 13-17 Jan 2012 :
Third Test
: Perth : 0800 IST |
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14
Jan 12 Sat
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Channel [V],
the youth channel from the Star India stable, is
launching talk show format 'My
Big Decision' starting
14 Jan 2012 to air every Sat at 7 pm.
18th
Annual STAR Screen Awards : Live event on 14 Jan 2012 :
To be telecast on Colors on
22 Jan 2012
at 8 pm.
Pongal in South India.
Harvest Festival for Tamilians [RH].
Makara Sankaranti
[2012][RH]
is about transition of Sun
into Capricorn on its
celestial path. It is a huge Religious festival regarding
Sun. The event is marked by flying kites. This is significant considering the
Winter Solstice
marks the beginning of the gradual increase of the
duration of the day.
Happy Birthday : 1971
-
Piyush "Bobby" Jindal
was sworn in [in 2008] as the 56th Governor of Louisiana.
He is the first Indian American governor in U.S. history.
He will complete three years in office.
Happy Birthday : 1977
Narain Karthikeyan,
A1GP Driver.
1761 The Third
Battle of Panipat is fought
in India between the Afghans under Ahmad Shah Durrani
and the Marhatas. The Afghan victory changes the course
of Indian History. |
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15
Jan 12 Sun
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ARMY Day
Pulse Polio Sunday
: Nationwide Polio Immunization Drive.
69th Annual Golden Globeฎ
Awards
Pongal [RH]
Wikipedia, online
encyclopedia, turns 11 years old on 15 Jan 2012.
Happy Birthday : 1956
Mayawati, coming from a dalit
family, is the current Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh,
the most populated state of India. She has been the Chief
Minister during three other short tenures but her party
holds the absolute majority in the state as of date. She
is the highest income-tax payer among all politicians in
India paying Rs.26 crore for year 2007-08.
Pritish Nandy
: Happy Birthday : 1951 - a Poet, Painter, Journalist,
Politician, Media and TV personality, Animal Activist
and Film Producer.
Happy Birthday : 1982
Neil Nitin Mukesh, Actor. We
shall see him in "Players
and Shortcut Romeo".
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16
Jan 12 Mon
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69th
Annual Golden Globeฎ
Awards :
Live on
VH1 on 16 Jan
2012 at 06:30am IST to be repeated same day at 09:00pm IST.
Ramnath Goenka Awards
for Excellence in Journalism will be held on 16 Jan
2012, and will be presented in 17 categories including
the Journalist of the Year.
Happy Birthday : 1946 -
Kabir Bedi is an
international actor who began his career in Bollywood,
worked in Hollywood, and became a star in Europe. |
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16 Jan to 29 Jan 2012 |
Australian Open, the
tennis tournament will take place in Melbourne,
Australia, from 16 Jan to 29 Jan 2012. |
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17
Jan 12 Tue
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Happy Birthday : 1945
Javed Akhtar,
Lyricist, Poet and Scriptwriter
Birth Anniversary : 1917
M. G. Ramachandran,
Politician, Actor (d. 1987)
Death Anniversary : 2010
Jyoti Basu,
Politician (b. 8 Jul 1914) |
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18
Jan 12 Wed
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Happy Birthday : 1985
Minissha Lamba :
Actress and Model. She will be seen in
Joker
and
Zila Ghaziabad.
Happy Birthday : 1972
Vinod Kambli,
Cricket Player
Happy Birthday : 1976
Subhrajit Mitra,
Film Maker
Death anniversary : 1996 N T
Rama Rao, Actor, Director,
Producer, and Politician. He is the founder of Telugu
Desam Party and served as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
(b. 1923) |
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19
Jan 12 Thu
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Indira Gandhi was elected
Prime Minister of India in 1966.
Death Anniversary : 1905
Debendranath Tagore,
Philosopher (b. 1817)
Death Anniversary : 1990
Rajneesh, Religious leader
(b. 11 Dec 1931) |
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20 Jan 12 Fri |
Happy Birthday : Krishnam
Raju [1940], Actor and
Politician
Lawyers throughout the
country, as per BCI,
would stay off court work
on 20 Jan 2012 as a mark of protest against the new
education super-regulator proposed by the central
government. |
Bffs :
*
5 Ghantey Mien 5 Crore |
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21 Jan 12 Sat |
1972
Meghalaya
and Tripura became full-fledged States.
Death Anniversary : 2005
Parveen Babi, Actress (b.
1955) |
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22 Jan 12 Sun |
18th
Annual STAR Screen Awards
will be telecast on Colors on
22 Jan 2012
at 8 pm.
Birth : 1916 Harilal
Upadhyay, Author, Poet and
Astrologist (d. 1994)
Happy Birthday : 1972
Namrata Shirodkar, Actress
Death : 1666 Shah
Jahan, Mughal Emperor of (b.
1592) |
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23 Jan 12 Mon
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Chinese New Year
[2012]
: Happy New Year from Indianext.net
Veer
Surendra Sai : Birth
Anniversary : 1809 Freedom Fighter
(d. 1884)
Subhas Chandra Bose : Birth
Anniversary : 1897
Independence Fighter (d. 1945)
Bal Thackeray
: Happy Birthday : 1924 Founder and President of the political party "Shiv
Sena".
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New Moon 23 Jan 2012 : 13:09
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24 Jan 12 Tue
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Happy Birthday : 1943
Subhash Ghai, Film Director
Happy Birthday : 1981 -
Riya Sen
is a film actress and model, who hails from a family of
actors including her grandmother Suchitra Sen, mother Moon
Moon Sen and sister Raima Sen.
Death Anniversary : 1966 -
Homi J
Bhabha, FRS, was a Nuclear
Physicist who played a major role in the development of
the Atomic energy program and is considered to be the
father of India's Nuclear Program (b. 30 Oct 1909).
1966 An
Air India Boeing 707 jet crashes
on Mont Blanc, on the border between France and Italy,
killing 117. |
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24
- 28 Jan
12 |
Cricket
: India's tour of Australia : 24-28 Jan 2012 :
Fourth Test
: Adelaide : 0530 IST |
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25 Jan 12 Wed |
National Voters Day
: 25 Jan is celebrated every year as the National
Voters Day beginning from 2011 to provide voters a
badge with its logo and the slogan Proud to be a voter
Ready to vote. [Why Jan 25 : The Constitution (61st
Amendment) Act, 1988 was enacted to amend article 326 of
the Constitution lowering the voting age from 21 years
to 18 years so as to provide the unrepresented youth of
the country an opportunity to give vent to their
feelings and help them become a part of the political
process].
1971
Himachal Pradesh
becomes the 18th Indian state.
2005 A stampede
at the Mandher Devi temple
in Satara District, Maharashtra killed at least 258. |
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26 Jan 12 Thu |
Republic Day [GH] The
Constitution of India comes into force in 1950, forming
a Republic. Rajendra
Prasad is sworn in as its
first President. A colourful, military parade and floats from each state move
down Rajpath, New Delhi, and daredevil fly past, attended
by the President and Prime Minister marks the celebration
of India's statehood every year on January 26. One of the
three National Holidays.
1965 Hindi
became the Official
Language of India. |
Bffs :
* Agneepath |
27 Jan 12 Fri
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Vikram Bhatt
: Happy Birthday : 1969 - Film Director, Producer and
Screenwriter. He has more than 21 films to his credit.
Happy Birthday : 1967
Bobby Deol, Actor. We shall
see him in "Players"
Death Anniversary : 2009
R. Venkataraman, 8th
President of India (b. 1910) |
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28 Jan 12 Sat |
Assembly Elections in Manipur
28 Jan 2012
Vasant Panchami [RH][2012]
Dedicated to Saraswati, the goddess of learning and
Brahma's wife. The festival marks the beginning of Spring.
Birth Anniversary : 1865
Lala Lajpat Rai,
Freedom Fighter (d. 1928) |
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29
Jan 12 Sun
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FilmFare awards [the
most prestigious and oldest Films awards of the Indian
Cinema] will be held on 29th Jan, 2012 in Bollywood city
Mumbai to be telecast later on Sony TV on 5th Feb 2012.
Beating Retreat :
Republic Day festivity ends on January 29.
Australian Open
Finals [2012] |
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30 Jan 12
Mon
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Assembly Elections in Punjab
on 30 Jan 2012
Assembly Elections in
Uttarakhand on 30 Jan
2012
Mahatama Gandhi, Father
of the Nation, was assassinated by Nathuram Godse in
1948.
Martyrs' Day
is an annual observance to honour all those who gave up
their lives in service of the Nation.
This day is also
observed as the
School Day of Non-violence and Peace (DENIP),
in schools of many countries.
`Zee
Cine Awards 2011 - The
Event' at 2000 Hrs on ZEE TV on 30 Jan 2011?
UPSC : LAST DATE FOR RECEIPT OF APPLICATIONS :
N.D.A. & N.A. EXAM.(I), 2012
: 30.01.2012 |
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31
Jan 12 Tue
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Happy Birthday : 1975 -
Preity Zinta
has appeared in Hindi, Telugu, Punjabi and English
language films. She had won the Filmfare Best Female
Debut Award.
Happy
Birthday : 1981 - Amrita
Arora, Actress. |
Bff:
* Life's Good
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New Websites : |
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Delhi Police
Jeeta aur Jaggi |
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