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• June 04: Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K. Chandrashekar Rao resigned as party chief owning moral responsibility for the bypoll debacle. (Times of India)
• June 03: India's corporate sector has lost some $1.25 billion since May 23 due to the ongoing Gujjar stir, apart from cancellations of at least 75 trains by the railways, as per estimates by official agencies and industry chambers. (Economic Times)
• May 30: The Union ministry of human resources development has given the nod to another three IITs, taking the count to six, to begin functioning from 2008-09. (Howrah News Service)
• May 29: BS Yeddyurappa of the Bharatiya Janata Party and his group of ministers will be sworn in on Friday afternoon in Bangalore. (The Statesman)
• May 28: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced the class X results, which registered a pass percentage of 87.08 per cent. (NDTV.com)
• May 28: By-elections in Andhra Pradesh are being held for four Lok Sabha and 18 Assembly seats. (andhracafe.com)

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• Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K Chandrasekhar Rao resigned as party chief owning moral responsibility for the bypoll debacle. (Times of India)
• Gujjar protesters held sway blocking a key rail track in Dausa district leaving several trains suspended and disrupting traffic on a highway linking Rajasthan with Madhya Pradesh. (Hindustan Times)
• The West Bengal government today reduced the price of a litre of petrol by Rs 2.12 a litre and of diesel by Rs 1.38 a litre by reducing the sales tax on petrol from 25 per cent to 20 per cent and on diesel from 17.5 per cent to 12.5 per cent. (Business Standard)
• At least 11 Naga underground cadres were killed in a fierce gunfight between rival groups of NSCN on the outskirts of Dimapur in Nagaland. (The Hindu)
• India's corporate sector has lost some $1.25 billion since May 23 due to the ongoing Gujjar stir, apart from cancellations of at least 75 trains by the railways, as per estimates by official agencies and industry chambers. (Economic Times)
• Prime Minister Manmohan Singh indicated of an imminent fuel price hike saying consumers cannot be fully insulated from the impact of rising global prices. (Hindustan Times)
• Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa will seek the trust vote on June 6 as Governor Rameshwar Thakur, who had earlier refused to address the joint sitting of both of the houses, has agreed to preside over the session. (Press Trust of India)
• Syed Ali Shah Geelani, a top Kashmiri separatist leader, said he had been put under house arrest to stop him from attending a function to commemorate the Indian army's storming of Sikhism's holiest shrine. (Reuters India)

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Events in June 2008

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Notable Birthdays in June

• 1: Satyendranath Tagore (1842)
• 26: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1838)
• 29: Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893)
• 29: Ashutosh Mukherjee (1864)
• 15: Abhinav Sharma

Notable Deaths in June

• 28: Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1972)

Observances and Holidays
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