January3

Jayalalitha, former Tamil Nadu CM, inprisoned for 27 days, released on bail.

Government announces setting up of a Central Board for bank frauds.

Munshi Newal Kishore, son of Jamuna Prasad Bhargava--a zamindar of Aligarh-- and a great erudite scholar, educationist, nationalist, social worker and a pioneer industrialist, was born. He was the founder of Navalkishore Press, Lucknow (1858), which published 2612 books that elaborated Hindi literature. He was the Publisher of Awadhi Newspaper in Asia.

Publication of 'Illustrated Weekly of India' started.

Bomb blast kills six and seriously wounds 20. Jammu and Kashmir Islamic Front claim responsibility in Delhi.

Savitribai Phule, famous social worker, was born at Naigaon in Satara district, Maharashtra.

Shantiprasad Jain, famous industrialist, was born.

Kartarsingh Duggal, famous Punjabi story-writer and novelist, was born.

Shambhu Pan, cricket Test Umpire for 9 tests from 1960-70, was born at Bengal.

Kirat Chothairam Babani, versatile Sindhi Writer and Journalist, was born.

Madhukar Arnalkar, famous Marathi writer, was born.

Yashwant Dinkar Phadke, great critic of literature, was born.

Jaswant Singh, son of Thakur Sardar Singh, was born in Jasol, Distt. Barmer (Rajasthan).

Chetan Jagatram Manohar Sharma, cricketer (Indian Test pace bowler, World Cup hat-trick 1987), was born in Ludhiana.

Father Kuriakose Elias Chavara, freedom fighter and social reformer, died.

No. 8 Squadron becomes the first to convert onto the Spitfire VIII during the previous month and commencing operations on 3 January 1945 in the Kangaw area.

Three High Ranked Officers of Azad Hind Fauj were released by Gen. C. Auchinleck.

Gandhiji toured the riot-affected areas in Bihar from January 3 to January 29.

PM inaugurates 82nd Indian Science Congress at Jadavpur University, Calcutta.

Chandrasekar takes 6-52 at MCG in Indian innings win.

Azharuddin scores 110 in first Test innings.

Olympian Jaspal Rana sets new national mark in junior men's sports pistol 25 metres in National Shooting in Asansol.

Arvind Deshpande, famous actor, died.

Lalit Narayan Mishra, great freedom fighter, politician, leader, member of the Lok Sabha and Minister of Railways, died at a Railway Hospital in Danapur due to a bomb blast at Samastipur Railway Station a day earlier.

Dr. Harekrishna Mehtab, former Chief Minister of Orrisa and Governer of Mumbai State, died.

First Indian Parliament meets.

Stalemate persists on the Kashmir issue during Indo-Pak talks that concluded in Islamabad.

Congress President Sitaram Kesri elected leader of Congress Parliamentary Party, and Sharad Pawar appointed leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha.

Karnataka agrees to release 6 tmc ft. of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu, bowing to PM's order.

A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, accuses Pakistan for the hijack of an Indian Airlines aircraft. (The crisis ended on Dec. 31 last with the Vajpayee Government agreeing to free three terrorists in exchange for the passengers).