Event March 2008

March 2008Violence in Tibet
1.Nicholas Burns, the American points man forthe nuclear deal, quits

*33 Gazans killed in pitched battles.
2.Kosovo Prime Minister Thaci rules out partition

*Iranian President Ahmadinejad in Iraq.
3.Israel ends Gaza incursion

*Dmitry Medvedev wins a landslide in Russian presidential election

*Iran asks US to leave Iraq

*22 LTTE cadres killed; Rajapakse says Tigers will be wiped out

*Accordinq to a poll 64% of Israelis favour a negotiated truce with Hamas.
6.Waren Buffet ($62 b.) is the world's richest man in Forbes list of billionaires, Carlos Slim ($60 b) is second, Bill Gates ($58 b) third, and lakshmi Mittal ($45 fourth.
7. Gold drifts higher in Europe, $984.70 an ounce

*68 killed in twin blasts in central Baghdad

*Eight students killed by a Palestinian gunman inside a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem

*38 Tigers killed in north Sri Lanka.
*Marian Jones goes to prison
*Cun­man kills 8 teens in Israeli school.
9. PPP-PML (N) to form government in Pakistan.
10. Spanish Prime Minister Zapatero's Socialist Party wins elections but not an outright majority *Malaysian PM Badawi sworn in for another term.
11. 26 killed in Lahore twin blasts.
13. Oil price is $110 a barrel and gold hits $1000 an ounce.
14. Violence in Lhasa

*lranian elections.

*Shops and vehicles set ablaze in Lhasa.
15. Over 100 Tibetan protesters killed by Chinese police during protests against Chinese rule in Lhasa, Tibetan Government in exile
16. Wen jiabo re-elected China's Prime Minister

*A plan for a 38 member Mediterranean Union agreed upon

*Conservatives win majority in Iran.
17. Pakistan parliament opens without President Musharraf

*Gold is above $1 030 an ounce in New York

*New York gets its first black governor as David Paterson replaces Eliot Spitzer

*China declares 'people's war' as Tibet riots spread.
18. Wen Jiabo says Tibet protests are incited by Dalai Lama; Dalai Lama offers to quit as political head of his movement in exile, if violence continues

*Four ethnic Indians inducted in Malaysian cabinet

*Casualties in Iraq since 2003: US killed 3987; Iraqi civilians - 89,300.
19.Pakistan has a woman Speaker of National Assembly in Fehmida Mirza (PPP)

*Mikhail Gorbachev admits he is a Christian

*Taslima Nasrin leaves India, reported to be in London

*Rabbit fever reported in Thailand.
20.Osama bin Ladan threatens EU with grave punishment for publication of cartoons mocking prophet Mohammed.
21.Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif says he wants ousted CJ Iftihkar Chaudhary reinstated. 22.China sends more troops to restive areas to crush Tibet uprising

*PPP nominates Yousuf Raza Gillani as its candidate for Pakistan's Prime Minister *Russia warns Georgia over NATO

*Opposition KMT wins Taiwan presidential election.
23. Loss of world's biggest bank Citigroup for 2008 put at $43 b.
24.Pakistan's Prime Minister elect Gillani orders release of deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhary

*ln elections, Bhutan Peace and Prosperity Party wins

*US military death toll in Iraq climbs to 4000

*Sri Lanka claims 2500 Tigers killed since Jan. 1.
25. Yousuf Raza Gillani sworn in as Pakistan's 25th Prime Minister

*130 killed in Tibet violence.
26.Fighting in Basra and other towns intensifies.
27. Heathrow airports new Terminal 5 opens.
28.Virender Sehwag becomes the third batsman after Don Bradman and Brian Lara to run up 300 plus scores twice in Tests

*China's economy to grow at 10.7 p.c. in 2008, says a UN agency.
29. Voting in Zimbabwe. 31. Pakistan cabinet sworn in

*Chinese President Hu Jintao launches the Olympic torch relay

*160 nations take part in talks in Bangkok on global warming

*All con­spiracy theories in the death of Princess Diana rejected by coroner.