Nominated
Passages
Manoj Bajpai
Instituted
A Screening test, for medical graduates trained abroad, before practising in India. The first such was held in November.
Re-elected
Ariel Sharon, right-wing Israeli premier, as head of the Likud Party. He defeated Benjamin Netanyahu, ex-PM.
Offered
Peace talks, by the Maoist guerrillas, to Nepal’s royalist caretaker regime. The offer includes curbs on political killings and attacks on infrastructure.
Launched
Green Fuel Cell Vehicles, by Toyota and Honda. Specimens of these zero-emission cars have been given for trial to Japan’s government and US establishments.
Named
By the ICC, 101 undesirables, to be kept out of World Cup 2003, South Africa, to stop match-fixing.
Departed
John Rawls
Theory of Justice
Planned
The first Hindi Infotech lab, in Dehradun, as a component of the e-governance MoU between Microsoft and Uttaranchal.
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