NOVEMBER

NATIONAL

02 India's Supreme Court judges disclose their assets online.

03 India's central bank buys 200 metric tons of gold from the International Monetary Fund.

07 Ashok Chavan is sworn in as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra for the second term.

08 Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama arrives in Arunachal Prdesh’s Tawang on a four-day visit amidst objections raised by China.

12 The Metro train service from Noida to Delhi is flagged off.

13 NASA claims to have discovered water after the LCROSS satellite crashes near the South Pole of the Moon.

15 Sachin Tendulkar completes 20 years in international cricket.

17 Prof. C.N.R. Rao, former chairman of Hindustan Lever A.K. Ganguly and editor-in-chief of The Tribune H.K. Dua nominated to the upper House of Parliament.

19 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) signs an agreement with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to use data
from the Indian satellite Oceansat-II for research activities, including weather forecasting.

20 For the first time in the history of armed forces, two women aviators were inducted into the Indian Navy.

21 A Pakistani national and his son arrested in Italy on charges of aising and abetting the Mumbai terror attacks of November 2008.

23 Seven people killed in two bomb blasts in Assam’s Nalbari district; The International Film Festival of India-2009 begins at Panaji, Goa.

24 The report of Liberhan Commission is tabled in Parliament.

26 India remebers the martyrs of last year’s Mumbai attacks.

INTERNATIONAL

03 Czech President Vaclav Klaus signs the Lisbon Treaty after it was upheld by the Constitutional Court, thus fulfilling the final step in its ratification.

05 A US Army Major and psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan kills 13 persons at the most pupulous US military base Fort Hood in Texas; South Africa's Olympic governing body suspends Leonard Chuene, the President of Athletics South Africa, and apologises to Caster Semenya over the controversy it generated over her gender.

08 The Dalai Lama begins a visit to Tawang, amid objections from China; The 21st summit of APEC begins in Singapore.

09 Germany celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall; Eight ethnic Uyghurs and one Han are executed in China for their role in the Urumqi riots in July.

18 The population of Africa reaches one billion.

19 U.S. media mogul and talk show host Oprah Winfrey announces she will end her long running talk show in 2011.

23 The first atom collisions have taken place in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland.

26 Floods in Saudi Arabia kill around 77 people in Jeddah, Rabigh and Mecca, and a further 351 are missing in the heaviest rainfall in years.

27 The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2009 opens in Trinidad and Tobago.