Crowned
Passages
V. Anand
Muthiah Muralitharan, as the Ceat International Cricketer of the Year. The Lankan tweaker is the first ever to have won the award twice in a row. With 95 wickets in 11 tests, he was ahead of Proteas star Jacques Kallis by 41 points.
Departed
B.P. Sinha, 85. Archaeologist and once head of ancient history, Patna University, he discovered the ancient Vikramshila University in Bhagalpur.
Inaugurated
Parliament library, by President K.R. Narayanan. The library, built into two huge basements, took 12 years and Rs 200 crore. It has compact mobile stacks for 3 million volumes, conveyor belts, and is computerised.
Resigns
Simon Marandi, JMM founder-member and former MP, from the party, to join the Congress. A leading light of the Jharkhand movement, he was discredited by Narasimha Rao’s suitcase scam.
Appointed
M.L. Khurana, a ‘prabhari’ of Delhi BJP. His responsibility is a damage-control exercise in view of the recent civic poll debacle.
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