Awarded
Kailash Vajpeyi
Prithvi Ka Krishnapaksh
Poetry
Appointed
T.M. Asthana
Rebekah Wade, as the first woman editor of the British tabloid The Sun .
Commissioned
The world’s largest buddha statue, in Kushinagar, east UP, the site of the Mahanirvana, by the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition, a world body based in US.
Recovered
Beatles Tapes
Departed
Leopoldo Galtieri, 76, Argentina’s former military dictator (1976-83), who led his country into the 1982 Falklands war with the UK. He had been under house arrest since last July.
Maurice Gibb
Edward Rai
