JANUARY

NATIONAL

01 Five persons killed in serial blasts in Guwahati.

02 Home Minister P. Chidambaram inaugurates State Bank of India’s 11,111 brach at Sonapur in Guwahati.

04 The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) formally dissociates itself from the United Progressive Alliance.

05 National Conference President Omar Abdullah is sworn in the 11th Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.

07 Satyam Computer Services chairman Ramalinga Raju admits to accounting fraud and resigns; The BSE Sensex tumbles 749 points.

08 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurates Seventh Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas in Chennai.

11 A luxury tourist train named 'Royal Rajasthan on Wheels,' flagged off from New Delhi.

15 IPS officer Radha Vinod Raju is appointed the Director General of newly formed National Investigation Agency.

16 Mumbai defeats Uttar Pradesh in final of Ranji Cricket Championship.

19 Jharkhand Governor Syed Sibte Razi recommends President Rule in the state after the chief minister Shibu Soren lost the Assembly by-elections.

20 Former Chief Minister of U.P. Kalyan Singh quits Bhartiya Janata Party.

27 The 98-year-old former President R. Venkataraman passes away.

31 Yuki Bhambri creates history by winning a junior Grand Slam tennis title at the Australian Open.

INTERNATIONAL 

01 Slovakia adopts the euro and becomes the 16th member of the Eurozone; Austria, Japan, Mexico, Turkey, And Uganda assume their nonpermanent seats on the United Nations Security Council.

02 The first passenger flight from Europe in 18 years lands at Baghdad airport since the UN imposed sanctions on Iraq after Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait.

03 National Democratic Congress candidate John Atta Mills wins Ghana's 2008 presidential election. 

06 Sheikh Hasina is sworn in Prime  Minister of Bangladesh; The German luxury sports car maker Porsche takes over Volkswagen by purchasing more than 50% of its shares.

09 Microsoft Corporation releases the beta version of its Windows 7 operating system.

13 Citigroup announces a merger deal with Morgan Stanley.

15 China's gross domestic product grew 13 percent during 2007, overtaking Germany to become the world's third largest economy; US Airways Flight 1549, an Airbus A320 carrying 155 people, ditches into New York City's Hudson River.

20 Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th and first African- American President of the United States.

22 US President Barack Obama decides to close Guantanamo Bay Naval Base's detention camp within one year and bans torture.

23 Japan launches the world's first greenhouse-gas-monitoring satellite, Ibuki, from the Tanegashima Space Center.

27 Ninth World Social Forum held in Brazilian city of Belem.