Home > 2003 in India

1 Facts

• Parliament worked for 133 days in 2003.

2 Events

• August 25 - 52 killed in two bomb blasts in Mumbai, India.
• Mulayam Singh Yadav is elected chief minister of Uttar Pradesh after Mayawati resigns

2.1 Diplomacy

• January 26 - The president of Iran, Mohammed Khatami, is the guest at the Republic Day celebration.

• April 18April 18 is the 108th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (109th in leap years). There are 257 days remaining. Events 1518 Bona Sforza is crowned as queen of Poland and married to Sigismund I of Poland. 1775 Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Pre - Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, at his first rally in SrinagarSrinagar could mean either Srinagar (city) or Srinagar (district) in Jammu and Kashmir., makes a historic announcement of a peace initiative with PakistanIslami Jamhuria Pakistan ( In Detail) ( In Detail) National motto: Iman, Ittehad, Nazm( Urdu: "Faith, Unity, Discipline" Official Language(s) Urdu, English Capital Islamabad Largest City Karachi President General Pervez Musharraf Prime Minister Shaukat Az.

• May 31May 31 is the 151st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (152nd in leap years). There are 214 days remaining. Events 1578 Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England, destined to mine fool's gold at Frobisher Bay, which is used to pave streets in Lo - Prime Minister Vajpayee has the rare honour of joining the head table at the 300th foundation day of St. Petersburg with Vladimir PutinVladimir Vladimirovich Putin (́ ́ ́) (born October 7, 1952) has been the President of Russia since the year 2000. Early Life Putin was born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) and graduated from the Law Department of Leningrad State Univ and George W. BushGeorge Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States. His first four-year term as President began on January 20, 2001 following the controversial U. presidential election, 2000, where for the first time in American.

• June 22 - Vajpayee is in China. India concedes that Tibet is an integral part of China. China agrees to recognise Sikkim's accession to India.

• July 14 - India refuses to send troops to Iraq.

• September 9 - Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon, makes the first ever visit by an Israeli PM to India even as neighbour Pakistan raises eyebrows and Islamic countries watch silently.

• September 24 - US President George W. Bush invites Vajpayee to lunch in New York during Vajpayee's US trip. It is considered an important meet for Indo-US relations. Several deals are struck on civilian nuclear technology, space, hi-tech trade and missile defence.

• October 6 - Vajpayee visits Bali for the second time in 2 years.

• October 22 - India announces confidence-building measures with respect to Indo-Pakistani relations: more buses, flights, higher mission strength, etc.

• November 15 - Vajpayee visits Syria.