Current Events
OCTOBER
11—A bomb blast just outside of India’s best known Sufi shrine at Ajmer kills at least two worshippers and leaves 17 wounded.
14—Bomb blast in Shringar theatre in Ludhiana (Punjab), kills six persons and injures 32 others.
15—The National Early Warning System for Tsunami and Storm Surges in the Indian Ocean is dedicated to the nation.
19—A midnight attack on the motorcade of former Pakistani Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, who returned to Pakistan after eight years of self-imposed exile, leaves at least 139 people dead and more than 500 injured.
27—Naxalite gunmen kill 19 people in a Jharkhand village, including the son of former Chief Minister Babulal Marandi.
NOVEMBER
3—Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf imposes emergency rule in a bid to reassert his flagging authority against political rivals and Islamist militants.
6—A suicide attack on parliamentary delegation kills at least 50 people in
northern Afghanistan. Five members of the Afghan parliament are among the dead.
10—Nandigram area of West Bengal becomes a war zone as CPM cadres shoot indiscriminately on a peaceful public rally and kill three. Central forces are rushed to control the situation.
