Professional Documents
Culture Documents
: JULY 2009
Banwari Lal Joshi: He has been appointed as the Governor of Uttar Pradesh.
Nalin Surie: He has been appointed as the High Commissioner of India to United
Kingdom.
Nirupama Rao: She has been appointed as the Foreign Secretary of India.
Ram Sevak Sharma: He has been appointed as the first Director-General and
Mission Head of the National Unique Identification Authority of India (NUIAI).
V. Sridhar: He has been appointed as the Chairman of the Central Board of Excise
and Customs (CBEC).
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS
Samuel Aba: Minister of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Immigration of Papua New
Guinea.
DIED
Corazon Aquino: Former President of Philippines who had led millions of Filipinos
in protests against Dictator Ferdinand Marcos, in a popular revolt in 1986, before
taking over as the President. She was 76.
Gayatri Devi: Erstwhile Rajmata fo Jaipur. She was 90. She was once listed among
the world’s ten most beautiful women by Vogue magazine.
Leela Naidu: Hindi film actress, who mesmerised audiences with her classic
beauty in films like "Anuradha" and "Yeh Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke”. She was 69.
4—In its second biggest salvo of ballistic weaponry in three years, North Korea
test-fies seven missiles, sending a message of defiance to USA on its
Independence Day.
13—At least 16 people, many of them children, are killed as a powerful explosion
rips apart a madrassa-cum-bomb-making factory in a village in Pakistan’s Punjab
province.
15—An Iranian passenger Airliner crashes near Tehran, shortly after take-off,
killing all 168 on board.
17—Bombs rip through two luxury hotels in the heart of Indonesia’s capital
Jakarta, killing eight persons and wounding a dozen.
22—Twenty-first century’s longest total solar eclipse occurs over India. Totality
lasts for up to 6 minutes and 39 seconds and will not be surpassed in duration
until June 13, 2132.
25—History is created as Border Security Force (BSF) inducts the first batch of
women constables who will be deployed in combat role on the international
border.
25—The first-ever women’s batch of Border Security Force (BSF) passes out of
BSF’s Subsidiary Training Centre, Kharkan, Hoshiarpur, Punjab. Deployed for the
first time in combat role, the women will be required to stand guard at the
international border at Atari-Wagah border near Amritsar.
26—India, led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pays homage to the martyrs of
the Kargil war.
28—J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah resigns on sex romp charges by Opposition
PDP party. He is, however, persuaded to stay after Union Home Minister says the
charge is false.
31-Britain withdraws its troops from Iraq, concluding six years of military
involvement in the country that began with the US-led invasion which ousted
Saddam Hussein.
MILESTONES
Edmond Salis: French pilot, he flew on July 26, 2009 to Dover on a ‘Bleriot XI’, a
restored original of the plane in which Louis Bleriot crossed the English Channel
exactly a 100 years ago.
Russell Peters: Canadian comedian of Indian parents who came from Kolkata, he
has been ranked among the top 10 Earning Comedians in the world by Forbes.