January11

Emperor Jahangir in a proclamation permitted East India Company to establish factories in Surat. And the first British factory was established under Thomas Aldworth.

R. Shekhar became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 14/12/90).

Mrs. Anju, wife of Shoaib Ilyasi of 'India's Most Wanted' famed serial, dies under mysterious circumstances.

Production of Newsprint paper factory started for the first time in India.

Shridhar Pathak, famous Hindi poet, was born.

Lord Curzon, Governor General and Viceroy, was born.

Rahul Dravid, cricket batsman, was born in Indore.

Four DRDO scientists and four pilots aboard an Avro plane on a research test flight are killed as the plane crashes after take-off from the Arakkonam INS Rajali Naval air base in Tamil Nadu.

Lal Bahadur Shastri was posthumously awarded the "Bharat Ratna".

Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (1896-1995).

Communal violence in Bombay and Ahmedabad spreads; By-elections postponed.

Oil struck in third Bombay High rig.

Vasudevacharya Kerur, famous Kannad novelist, drama writer and journalist, passed away.

Two lakh Indians in East Pakistan were rounded up and lodged in concentration camps.

The Naval Dockyard Bombay celebrates its 250th Anniversary.

The first MiG-27M fighter, built under license by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, is delivered and inducted into the Indian Air Force.

Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian Prime Minister (1964-66), passed away at Tashkent, U.S.S.R. at 1:32, age 61. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously.

Union Government declares Ladakh a Scheduled Tribe area under a constitutional amendment order by the President, applying article 342 for the first time to J&K.

Five JD ministers at the Centre disqualified by Speaker Rabi Ray on the basis of anti-defection law.Five disqualified ministers who tendered their resignation were asked to continue in office by the PM.

Hyderabad score 6 for 944 against Andhra Pradesh in Ranji Trophy.

C. V. Gadkari, great Indian Test all-rounder 1953-55, passed away.

Shankarrao Savekar, veteran cameraman of film industry, passed away.

Pakistan and India agree on disputed boundary between Punjab and W. at Pakistan.

Gulzarilal Nanda was appointed as the acting Prime Minister of India. He held this position till January 24, 1966.

Ravi Naik of Maharashtra Gomanthak party sworn in as the CM of Goa.

Kumari Anandan replaces Vazhapadi K. Ramamurthy as TNCC (I) chief.

Canadian PM Jean Chretien visits New Delhi.