Rejected
Dattopant Thengadi
Departed
Isser Harel
Passed
The 500-wicket barrier in odis, by Pakistani seamer Wasim Akram. He also has 414 scalps in Tests.
Sentenced
Ranjit Singh Gill
Disbanded
The Special Operations Group of the J&K police. Set up in 1994, the sog was accused by many of gross human rights violations.
Selected
Pradip Baijal, the disinvestment secretary, as the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India chief. He replaces M.S. Verma at a time of ferment in the telecom sector.
Honoured
Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Elected
Roh Moohyun, as South Korea’s president amid the heat of the nuclear row in Pyongyang.
