Numberwise
All the headlines grouped by numbers for those of you who might like to be numerologically inclined or wish to see patterns or groupings. Jusht.
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6 BIG INDIAN NEWS STORIES
- The defeat of the BJP-led NDA in the general elections
- Sonia Gandhi’s ‘No’ to prime ministership
- Indian truck drivers taken hostage in Iraq
- Union minister Shibhu Soren going underground
- The killing of Veerappan
- The arrest of Jayendra Saraswati
3 POLLS NOBODY COULD PREDICT
- Indian elections
- American elections
- BCCI elections
- Long telephone call to Venkaiah Naidu before culmination of tiranga yatra
- Confrontation with L.K. Advani before TV cameras
- Top secret letter to Advani calling colleagues names
- School fire in Kumbakonam killing 90 children
- Stampede at Lalji Tandon’s Lucknow saree mela killing 22 women
- The mass death of fish in Gujarat
- Manmohan Singh
- Left winning 56 LS seats
- Y.S. Rajashekhara Reddy
- K. Chandrashekhar Rao of Telangana Rashtriya Samti
- Swati Dandekar, state representative, Iowa
- Bobby Jindal, Republican Congressman from Louisiana
- Shiv Sainiks slapping an effigy of Mani Shankar Aiyar with chappals to protest his stand on Veer Savarkar
- Manipuri women going nude to slam army atrocities
- Atal Behari Vajpayee
- L.K. Advani
- Pramod Mahajan
- Bal Thackeray
- Venkaiah Naidu
- Uma Bharati
- Vijay Mallya
- P.A. Sangma
3 REASONS WHY JAYALALITHA Is Happy
- Veerappan’s killing
- Jayendra Saraswati’s arrest
- Rajnikant making peace
- Laloo Yadav waves in the ‘kulhad’ (earthen cups)
- A.H. Wheeler’s monopoly on rail platforms is ended
7 BIG INTERNATIONAL STORIES
- George W. Bush’s return to power
- Prisoner abuse in Abu Ghraib
- The school hostage crisis in Beslan
- The suicide bombings in Iraq
- Hamid Karzai’s victory in Afghan polls
- A.Q. Khan ousted as a nuclear rat
- The death of Yasser Arafat
2 New Words In Our Lexicon
1 DEATH V.P. SINGH (PROBABLY) DIDN’T MOURN
- Rajeev Goswami, 33, who shot to fame during the anti-Mandal agitation by immolating himself
1 SCANDAL We HAVE ALL FORGOTTEN
- The shootout involving Telugu film star Nandamuri Balakrishna, NTR’s son
- Shane Warne overtakes Muralitharan
- Parimarjan Negi, 11, becomes youngest Indian to get International Master status
- Rahul Dravid becomes first player to appear in 85 consecutive Tests since debut
- Bula Chowdhury, 34, becomes world’s first woman to swim all seven seas
- Priyamvada Birla wills Rs 5,000 crore of assets to her auditor R.S. Lodha
- Mukesh Ambani goes public on "ownership issues" with brother Anil
- Global Trust Bank goes belly up
- Outcry in America over outsourcing to India
- IPOs have a golden run
- The stockmarket falls and then rises.And how.
- Nagpur women lynching molester
- Chandrababu Naidu’s defeat
- SM Krishna’s defeat.
- baazee.com chief Avnish Bajaj’s arrest
- Laxmi Mittal becomes Britain’s richest man, with a $31-billion empire and a $70-million home
- Kiran Mazumdar Shaw is the richest Indian woman after Biocon listing
- T.S. Subramaniam: Journeys through Babudom and Netaland
- P.C. Alexander: Through the Corridors of Power
- B.G. Deshmukh: From Poona to PM’s Office
- J.N. Dixit: Makers of India’s Foreign Policy
- Pavan K. Varma: Being Indian
- J.M. Lyngdoh: Chronicle of an Impossible Election
2 CASES OF UTTER SHAMELESSNES
- The wrong cops being decorated for saving Chandrababu Naidu’s life
- Army officers in Siachen faking killings, asking soldiers to pose as dead enemy, making hazy videos and claiming bravery awards
- Taj Mahal turns 350
- Postal Department turns 150
- 20 years of Bhopal gas tragedy
- 100 years of JRD
- Tintin turns 75
- Rajkumar: 50 years in acting
- Dhanonjoy Chatterjee being hanged on his birthday
- Manoj Night Shyamalan’s ‘The Village’
- Aishwarya Rai’s ‘Bride and Prejudice’
- Brian Lara hits 400 to become highest scorer beating Hayden’s record
- The Russian invasion in women’s tennis led by Maria Sharapova
- Virender Sehwag becoming the first Indian to score a triple ton
- Rajyavardhan Rathore wins a shooting silver at Athens Olympics
- Vijay Singh topples Tiger Woods as golf no. 1
- Lance Armstrong wins Tour de France the sixth time
- Anil Kumble overtakes Kapil Dev’s 434
- Sachin Tendulkar joins Sunil Gavaskar for most tons (34)
- Mohini Bharadwaj makes it to the American Olympics squad
- P. Harikrishna becomes world junior chess champ, only the second Indian after Vishwanathan Anand
2 SPORTING FLOPS AND TWO HITS
- Anju Bobby George ends up sixth and the weightlifters end up disgraced
- Irfan Pathan and Michael Clarke arrive
- The collective help by Mumbaikars for Shwaas to make it to the Oscar stage
- Mughal-e-Azam being released in colour
- Shahrukh Khan’s incredible run at the BO
- Lakshmi Mittal’s daughter’s wedding at $60 million
- Subroto Roy’s sons’ wedding where 2,000 cooks were at work, 101 couples were blessed, 20 chartered planes, 200 Mercs ferried guests
- Virender Sehwag weds Aarti
- V.V.S. Laxman weds Shailaja
- Narain Karthikeyan weds Pavarna
- Salman Rushdie weds Padma Lakshmi
- Raveena Tandon weds Anil Thadani
- Imran Khan and Jemima Goldsmith
- Saif Ali Khan and Amrita Singh
- India’s first lesbian film, Girlfriend, in which Amrita Arora and Isha Koppikar sucked each other’s thumbs
- Julie (starring Neha Dhupia), in which a young girl becomes a prostitute and exposes her clients on TV
- Rog, in which a cop becomes obsessed with a ‘dead’ woman whose murder he is probing
- Miss India-World Lakshmi Pandit dethroned after being reported married to Siddharth Mishra
- Gen S.Padmanabhan: India checkmates America 2017
- American Soldier: General Tommy Franks