• June 03 to June 08, 1984:   Duration of the operation.
• April, 1983:   Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his armed followers who had made the complex buildings. as their fort and headquarters in April 1983.
• October 31, 1984:   Four months after the operation, on this day, Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, was assassinated by Satwant Singh and Beant Singh who were her two Sikh bodyguards, in what is viewed as an act of vengeance. Subsequently, more than 3,000 Sikhs were killed in the ensuing anti-Sikh riots in 1984.
• July 10, 1985:   The soldiers and generals involved in the Operation were presented with gallantry awards, honours, decoration strips and promotions by the Indian President Zail Singh, a Sikh, in a ceremony conducted on this day

• It was ordered by the then Prime Minister of India, Smt. Indira Gandhi, in order to establish control over the Harmandir Sahib Complex in Amritsar, Punjab, and remove Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his armed followers who had made the complex buildings. as their fort and headquarters.
• The operation was carried out by Indian Army troops; the resistance from within the temple complex was so fierce that the army suffered heavy initial casualties and had to call for the support of tanks, artillery, helicopters, armored vehicles, etc.
• After the huge exchange of fire from both sides, there were large casualties both in the army as well as the civilians.
• Some reports placed Indian army deaths at around 136 and injuries at 220. According to the official estimate presented by the Indian government, 493 civilians were killed, though numbers put forward by independent human rights organizations are significantly higher.
• The military action led to an uproar amongst Sikhs worldwide and the increased tension following the action led to assaults on members of the Sikh community within India.
• Many Sikh soldiers in the Indian army mutinied, many Sikhs resigned from armed and civil administrative office and several returned awards and honours they had received from the Indian government.

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• October 15, 1932 - Founded in 1932 by J. R. D. Tata and later renamed as Tata Airlines; he flew its first airplane on this day, carrying air mail from Karachi to Bombay and later continuing to Madras (currently Chennai).
• July 29, 1946 - After World War II, regular commercial service was restored in India and Tata Airlines became a public limited company under the name Air India.
• June 08, 1948 - First inter-nation service started on this day. The first aircraft to be commissioned in the inter-nation service was christened 'Malabar Princess'.
• December 13, 1950 - an Air India DC-3 carrying 21 people (17 passengers and four crew), en route from Bombay to Coimbatore, crashed into high ground near Kotagiri due to a navigational error, killing all on board.
• September 15, 1951 - an Air India Douglas C-47 Skytrain carrying 27 people (23 passengers and four crew) en route from Bangalore to Trivandrum, crashed on take-off killing a crew member.
• May 09, 1953 - an Air India Douglas C-47 Skytrain carrying 18 people (13 passengers and five crew) crashed after take-off from Delhi killing all on board.
• August 25, 1953 - Govt. of India takes over majority stake in Air India (Now it became Air India International Ltd.)
• April 11, 1955 - Kashmir Princess, carrying 19 people (11 passengers and 8 crew) was bombed in mid-air, killing 16 of the 19 on board.
• July 19, 1959 - Rani of Aera, a Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation carrying 46 people (39 passengers and seven crew) crashed on approach to Santacruz Airport in conditions of poor visibility due to rain. The aircraft suffered damage beyond repair and was written off. There were no fatalities.
• February 21, 1960 - it included its first Boeing 707–420 named Gauri Shankar and became the first Asian airline to induct a jet aircraft in its fleet.
• May 14, 1960 - The airline inaugurated services to New York.
• June 08, 1962 - the airline's name was officially truncated to Air India.
• June 11, 1962 - Air India became the world's first all-jet airline.
• June 21, 1982 - Air India Flight 403 Gouri Shankar, a Boeing 707–420 carrying 99 passengers and 12 crew from Kuala Lumpur to Bombay via Madras crashed during landing at Sahar International Airport during a rainstorm. The fuselage exploded and 17 people including two crew members were killed.
• June 23, 1985 - Air India Flight 182 was an Air India flight operating on the Montreal, Canada–London, UK–Delhi, India route. On this day, the Boeing 747-237B "Emperor Kanishka" serving the flight was destroyed by a bomb at an altitude of 31,000 feet (9,400 m). It crashed into the Atlantic Ocean while in Irish airspace. A total of 329 people were killed, the majority of the victims were Canadian citizens of Indian ancestry. Canadian law enforcement determined that the main suspects in the bombing were members of the Sikh militant group Babbar Khalsa.
• May 07, 1990 - Air India Flight 132 Emperor Vikramaditya, a Boeing 747-237B flying on the London-Delhi-Bombay route carrying 215 people (195 passengers and 20 crew) caught fire on touch down at Delhi airport due to a failure of an engine pylon to wing attachment. There were no fatalities but the aircraft was damaged beyond repair and written off.
• August 04, 1993 - Air India took the delivery of its first Boeing 747–400 named Konark.
• April 01, 1996 - Air India Regional was established as Alliance Air, a wholly owned subsidiary of Indian Airlines.
• June 21, 1996 - Alliance Air started its operations. It was renamed Air India Regional after the merger between Air India and Indian Airlines.
• May 23, 2001 - the Ministry of Civil Aviation charged Michael Mascarenhas, the then-managing director, with corruption. According to the ministry reports, the airline lost approximately ₹570 million (US$8.5 million) because of extra commissions that Mascarenhas sanctioned and he was later suspended from the airline.
• April 29, 2005 - Air India Express began operations on this day and was initially owned by Air India Charters. It operates flights from South India to the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
• January 11, 2006 - Air India announced an order for 68 jets.
• May 15, 2007 - Air India refreshed its livery, making the Rajasthani arches along the windows slightly smaller, extending a stylised line from the tail of the aircraft to the nose and painting the underbelly red. The new logo features on the tail and the engine covers with red and orange lines running parallel to each other from the front door to the rear door.
• May 22, 2007 - Air India and Indian Airlines unveiled their new livery consisting of a Flying Swan with the wheel of Konark placed inside it.
• May 22, 2010 - Air India Express Boeing 737 went over a cliff and crashed upon landing at Mangalore, India, killing 158 of the 166 people on board.
• July 26, 2007 - First Boeing 777-200LR aircraft was delivered on this day, which was named Andhra Pradesh.
• October 09, 2007 - Air India received its first Boeing 777-300ER aircraft named as Bihar.
• September 06, 2012 - Air India received its first Boeing 787 dreamliner aircraft.
• September 19, 2012 - Flights of its first Boeing 787 dreamliner aircraft were commenced on this day.
• April 24, 2014 - Air India issued a tender for leasing 14 Airbus A320 aircraft for up to six years, to strengthen its domestic network.
• July 11, 2014 - Air India became the 27th member of Star Alliance.

• July 1923 - Broadcasting in India began in July 1923 with programmes by the Radio Club of Mumbai and other radio clubs.
• July 23, 1927 - The Bombay Station of the Indian Broadcasting Company (now All India Radio since 1936 and officially known as AAKASHVANI since 1956), located in a building called the 'RADIO HOUSE' was inaugurated by Lord Irwin, the Viceroy of India.
• August 26, 1927 - Calcutta Station of the Indian Broadcasting Company (now All India Radio since 1936 and officially known as AAKASHVANI since 1956), was started on this day.
• March 01, 1930 - The Indian Broadcasting Company went into liquidation.
• April 01, 1930 - Government of India took over the existing private broadcasting facilities, starting the Indian State Broadcasting Service (ISBS)  (It was on experimental basis for two years, but continued even after 2 years)
• June 08, 1936 – Renamed India State Broadcasting Service as ‘All India Radio’.
• October 01, 1939 - External Service began on this day with a broadcast in Pushtu; it was intended to counter radio propaganda from Germany directed to Afghanistan, Iran and the Arab nations.
• October 03, 1957 - Vividh Bharati Service was launched, to compete with Radio Ceylon. It presents a mix of film music, skits, short plays and interactive programmes, Some of the old popular programmes of Vividh Bharati are 'Sangeet Sarita', 'Bhule Bisre Geet', Hawa Mahal, 'Jaimala', 'Inse Miliye', 'Chhaya Geet' etc.
• April 01, 1976 - Television broadcasting began in Delhi in 1959 as part of AIR, but was separated from radio as Doordarshan on this day.
• July 23, 1977 - FM broadcasting commenced on this day in Madras and was expanded in the 1990s.
• July 05, 2017:   Narendra Modi, while in Israel, informed that the immortal Signature Tune of All India Radio was composed by a Jewish.
  • But the moot question is "When, Why and by whom this tune (most popular in India) was done away with?" Listen to it:

• AIR originates programmes in 23 languages and 146 dialects Reaching over 92% of the country’s area and 99.2 % of the total population.
• A Division of ‘PRASAR BHARATI’
•  When India became independent in 1947, the AIR network had only six stations: Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Lucknow, and Tiruchi; the total number of radio sets at that time was about 275,000.
• Presently it is one of the largest broadcasting organisations in the world in terms of the number of languages of broadcast, the spectrum of socio-economic and cultural diversity it serves.
• AIR’s home service comprises 418 broadcasting centres and 199 relay centres today located across the country.

• She made her acting debut at the age of 16, playing the title role in Raj Kapoor's Bobby (1973).
• In that same year she married Indian actor Rajesh Khanna, and retired from acting.
• She is the mother of Twinkle Khanna and Rinke Khanna, both former actresses.
• She returned to the film industry in 1984 after her separation from Rajesh Khanna.
• One of her films of that period was the drama Saagar (1985).

• Works:
  • In 2001, he co-authored Setubandh, a biography of the RSS leader Lakshmanrao Inamdar.
  • In 2007, a book comprising a collection of Modi's poems titled Aankh Aa Dhanya Chhe (Our Eyes Are So Blessed) was published.
  • He also authored a book Karmayog which was a 101-page booklet.
  • His Gujarati book titled Jyotipunj was published in 2008 and contains biographical profiles of various RSS leaders by whom he was inspired.
  • He has authored eight other books, mostly comprising short stories for children.
• Events:
  • May 26, 2014 - He was sworn in as the 15th Prime Minister of India. Modi invited leaders of the SAARC countries to his swearing-in as prime minister to strengthen ties among its member states.
  • October 2014 - He launched the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan ("Clean India") campaign, a national cleanliness drive.
  • August 03, 2014 - He reached Nepal on this day on 2 days State visit to help speed up negotiations on a power trade pact.

    Soon after arriving here, Modi handed over Jeet Bahadur, his Godson, to his mother Khagisara and brother Dasharath Sarumagar and younger sister.  (Jeet Bahadur is a Nepalese youth, who had got lost in India and Narendra Modi, found him in Ahmedabad. Since then Modi was acting guardian to him, helping him in his well being and development).       

  • August 30, 2014 - He began a five-day trip to Japan.
  • September 17, 2014 - Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in India.
  • September, 2014 (Last week) - He had a successful visit to the United States, which led to an improvement in relations between India and the US.
  • September 23, 2014:   He arrived in Dublin, Ireland on this day;  after a gap of around 60 years, any Prime Minister of India arrived in Ireland.
  • September 27, 2014 - He addressed to the United Nations General Assembly; Modi asked for the adoption of 21 June as International Yoga Day, and a resolution doing so was approved by the 193-member body.
  • June 01, 2015 - He launched the "Housing for All By 2022" project, which intends to eliminate slums in India by building about 20 million affordable homes for India's urban poor.
  • June 25, 2015 - He launched a flagship scheme for developing 100 smart cities.
  • July 01, 2015 - He launched Digital India Week in Delhi.
  • July 15, 2015:   Skill India is a campaign launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on this day with an aim to train over 40 crore (400 million) people in India in different skills by 2022. It includes various initiatives of the government like "National Skill Development Mission", "National Policy for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, 2015", "Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY)" and the "Skill Loan scheme".
  • August 16, 2015 - He arrived in Abu Dhabi on this day to begin the first UAE visit by an Indian Prime Minister in 34 years.  The all-out efforts were made to ensure that this visit  leaves an indelible impact on the lakhs of Indians living in this “mini-India”.        
  • September 2015 - India was the world's top foreign direct investment destination, overtaking China and the United States.
  • September 2015 - Modi visited silicon valley in USA to meet the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella promoting the Digital India program.
  • November 18, 2015:   A personalised postage stamp featuring Prime Minister Narendra was issued by Turkey in remembrance of the just concluded G20 Leaders Summit here. The stamp of 2.80 Turkish lira bears a picture of Modi and the Indian national flag. It has 'Narendra Modi - Prime Minister of Republic of India' written at the bottom.
  • December 25, 2015:   He made a surprise stopover in Lahore to meet Nawaz Sharif on his birthday, his first visit to Pakistan. Modi and Nawaz held a brief meeting at the latter's Raiwind Palace. This was the first time an Indian premier visited Pakistan in more than a decade. Modi also attended wedding ceremony of Sharif's grand daughter.
  • April 02, 2016:   Prime Minister of India Visit to Saudi Arabia:
    •  He met L&T workers at Riyadh.
    •  He said that India has potential and manpower that the world wants today.
    •  He said that government's e-migrate programme is to regularise migration and resource centre to benefit workers.
    •  PM Modi presented King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud a gold-plated replica of the Cheraman Juma Masjid in Kerala. Cheraman Juma Masjid is symbol of active trade relations between India and Saudi Arabia since ancient times.
    •  He exhorted Saudi industries to invest in India.
    •  Saudi Arabia conferred its highest civilian honour on PM Modi during his visit of Saudi Arabia.
  • April 03, 2016:   On this day, Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, gifted gold-plated replica of Cheraman Juma Masjid to Saudi King.
    • Cheraman Perumal was the Chera King and a contemporary of the Holy Prophet. Cheraman Perumal went to Arabia and embraced Islam after meeting the Holy Prophet at Mecca. The Cheraman mosque has an ancient oil lamp that is always kept burning and believed to be over a thousand years old. People from all religions bring oil for the lamp as an offering.
  • April 05, 2016:   Stand up India -  This day, he launched the Stand Up India Initiative at Noida.
    • The launching ceremony coincided with the birth anniversary of Babu Jagjivan Ram, former Deputy Prime Minister of India.
    • Hihlights of PM's speech:
      • 'Stand up India' aims to empower every Indian and enable them to stand on their own feet.
      • Job Seeker has to become a Job Creator.
      • This scheme is going to transform the lives of people from Dalit and Tribal communities.
      • E-rickshaws will be given to those who do not own rickshaws; the beneficiaries of this will be the poor.
      • PM Modi appealed e-rickshaw beneficiaries to educate their children particularly the daughters.
  • June 04, 2016: He and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani today jointly inaugurated a landmark dam, a Rs 1,700 crore Afghan-India Friendship Dam, earlier known as Salma Dam, on river Chist-e-Sharif in western Herat neighbouring Iran, will irrigate 75,000 hectares of land and generate 42 MW of power. On this day, Modi was also honoured with Amir Amanullah Khan Award - Afghanistan's Highest Civilian Honour. He was the first Indian, and amongst only a handful of foreign leaders to receive this award.
  • June 08, 2016 - He addressed the joint session of the US Congress.
  • August 20, 2016 - A suit once worn by him has entered the Guinness Book of World Records. In Feb 2016 a man from Surat bought the suit at an auction for over Rs 4.3 crore, making it the most expensive suit ever auctioned. Laljibhai Tulsibai Patel shelled out exactly Rs 4,31,31,311 for the suit that Modi wore on the occassion on US President Barack Obama's second state visit to India. A diamond baron and a private airline owner, Patel took home the suit at an auction whose proceeds went to the Namaami Gange Trust fund, an initiative of the Modi cabinet. The final auction price was an extraordinary figure, given that it reportedly cost only Rs 10 lakh to make, and was given a base auction price of Rs 11 lakh.
  • October 30, 2016:   On this day, he celebrated Diwali with soldiers in a remote and strategic area in Himachal Pradesh, adjoining the Chinese border. He had celebrated his first Diwali after coming in power in 2014 with soldiers posted in Siachen. In 2015 at the Diwali occasion, he was at the India-Pakistan border in Punjab.
  • November 08, 2016:   In an address to the nation on this day evening, he announced one of the boldest and the most  drastic measures to demonetise the 500 and 1000 Rupee Notes with effect from 12 O'Clock midnight the same day in order to curb the black money circulating in the country.
  • November 10, 2016:  
    • He left for Japan today on a three day visit to attend the annual Summit meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and have an audience with the Emperor of Japan in Tokyo on November 11, 2016.
    • While on way to Tokyo, he made a brief stopover at Bangkok, Thailand, and departed for Tokyo after paying his final respects to late Thai King Adulyadej Bhumibol in Dulsit Maha Prasat Hall in Bangkok.
  • November 25, 2016:  
    • He laid the foundation stone of All India Institute of Medical sciences at Bhatinda in Punjab.
    • He said that fields of farmers must have adequate water that belongs to India and assured farmers their right over the water that flows through Indus adding that he will strive to have that water back.
    • He said that black money and corruption have affected the middle class and deprived poor of their rights.
  • December 31, 2016:  
    • He announced two subsidy schemes under Prime Minister Awas Yojana (PMAY).
    •  Homebuyers earning less than Rs 6 lakh per annum will get a subsidy of 6.5 % on a principal component of Rs 6 lakh, regardless of their total loan amount.
    •  In the next bracket, people earning up to Rs 12 lakh per annum will get interest subsidy of 4 % on a principal component of Rs 9 lakh.
    • The income category of Rs 18 lakh per annum will get a subsidy of 3 % on a principal component of Rs 12 lakh.
  • July 03, 2017:  
  • Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will adopt Kakrahia, a village in Varanasi known for its wrestlers and wrestling arenas. He said Modi had chosen to adopt Kakrahia under the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana. In the past two years, Modi has adopted Jayapur and Nagepur in his Lok Sabha constituency of Varanasi.
  • Sep 14, 2017: On this day, he and the Japanese Prime Minister Abe laid the foundation stone for India’s first ever high speed rail project between Mumbai and Ahmedabad.
  • Sep 14, 2017 On this day, he and the Japanese Prime Minister Abe laid the foundation stone for India’s first ever high speed rail project between Mumbai and Ahmedabad.
  • Aug 15, 2018:   In his independence day speech from the rampart of the Red Fort, he summarised the mission of his government in the following words:
    • House for all
    • Power for all
    • Cooking for all
    • Water for all
    • Sanitation for all
    • Skill for all
    • Health for all
    • Security/Insurance for all
    • Connectivity for all
      • And for achieving this mission, he said he was:
        • Besabra (Restless)
        • Bechain (Worried)
        • Vyaakul (Upset)
        • Vyagra (Anxious)
        • Adheer (Impatient)
        • Aatur (Eager and wishful)

• The 15th and current Prime Minister of India. He is currently the Member of Parliament (MP) from Varanasi.
• First Prime Minister of India to be born after Indian Independence.
• Modi, a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), also served as the Chief Minister of Gujarat state from 2001 to 2014.
•  Modi was a key strategist for the BJP in the successful 1995 and 1998 Gujarat state election campaigns.
• He became Chief Minister of Gujarat in October 2001 and served longer in that position than anyone else to date.
• He led the BJP in the 2014 general elections, which resulted in an outright majority for the BJP in the Lok Sabha (the lower house of the Indian parliament) – the last time that any party had secured an outright majority in the Lok Sabha was in 1984.     

• Best Chief Minister in a 2007 nationwide survey by India Today.
• In March 2012 he appeared on the cover of the Asian edition of Time, one of the few Indian politicians to have done so.
• The 2014 Time list of the 100 world's most influential people.
• Forbes Magazine ranked him the 15th-most-powerful person in the world in 2014 and the 9th-most-powerful person in the world in 2015.
•  In 2015, Modi was one of Time's "30 most influential people on the internet" as the second-most-followed politician on Twitter and Facebook.
• In 2015, Modi was ranked fifth on Fortune magazine's second annual list of 'World's Greatest Leaders'.
• He received an overall approval rating of 87% at the end of his first year in office, with 68% of people rating him "very favorably" and 93% approving of his government.
• In 2015, he was ranked 8th in the TIME magazine’s Person of the Year.
• In 2016, his statue featured in the Madame Tussauds wax museum at London alongside other world leaders such as Barack Obama, David Cameron and Angela Merkel.
• Member Special Class of the Order of Abdulaziz al Saud, April 2016. ( Saudi Arabia ).
• Amir Amanullah Khan Award - Afghanistan's Highest Civilian Honour - conferred on June 04, 2016. He was the first Indian, and amongst only a handful of foreign leaders to receive this award.

• He and his brother used to sell tea on the streets to support the family.
• In his early teens, he joined Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
• During the emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, he went underground and wrote a book, Sangharsh ma Gujarat (Gujarat in Emergency), which chronicles his experiences as a political fugitive.
• In 1987, he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which stood for Hindu nationalism.
• In 1995, he was elected BJP national secretary.
• In February 2002, while Modi served as chief minister of Gujarat, Gujarat riots started after burning of train at Godhra by certain miscreants. Though he was heavily criticised and accused by the Congress party for massive killings, the Indian Supreme Court concluded there was no evidence about Modi being at fault.
• He was reelected chief minister of Gujarat in 2007 and 2012.
• He is credited with bringing prosperity and development to Gujarat and is seen as a corrupt-free and efficient administrator.

• A self made man and an iconic figure in the networking media industry.
• From a cable operator to a media giant - an unprecedented growth history.
• A pioneer in adopting a modern corporate studio approach to film production.
• In the recent years, he has established a higher market value by partnering with international media giants such as Walt Disney, Fox Searchlight, Sony and Overbrook Entertainment with the view to explore and extend his international reach.

•  She is also known as Shilpa Shetty Kundra after her marriage.
• She appears predominantly in Bollywood films, however, she has also worked in a few Telugu, Tamil and Kannada language films.
• After winning the international reality television series Celebrity Big Brother 5, She has become one of the most popular and high-profile celebrities in India. 
• She made her debut in the 1993 thriller Baazigar.
• In addition to film acting, She is also a social activist and is vocal about the issues such as feminism and animal abuse.
• She featured as a celebrity host for the 2008 reality show Bigg Boss 2, and served as a talent judge for the reality shows Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa (Season 1) and Nach Baliye (seasons 5 and 6).
• Since February 2009, she is the co-owner of the Indian Premier League cricket team Rajasthan Royals.

• June 08, every year:   Celebrated with the objective:
  • To build greater awareness of the crucial role of the ocean in our lives and the important ways people can help.
  • To provide an opportunity to get directly involved in protecting our future, through a new mindset and personal and community action and involvement – beach cleanups, educational programs, art contests, film festivals, sustainable seafood events, and other planned activities help to raise consciousness of how our lives depend on the oceans.

• Oceans were our past, are our present and will remain our future.
•  World Ocean day is celebrated to honour the oceans for the wealth they provide to the humanity in the form of water, seafood, and much more.
• Global pollution and over-consumption of fish have resulted in drastically dwindling population of the majority of species.
• The ocean also provides sea-lanes for international trade.