ON 12 DECEMBER IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on December 12, 2018
1911: King George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck are enthroned as Emperor and Empress of India. The king announces that Delhi will replace Calcutta as the capital of India after the building of New Delhi
http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2011/11/11/why-delhi-the-move-from-calcutta/
1940: Birth of Sharad Pawar, Indian politician, president of National Congress Party which was founded by him in 1999
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6167853.stm
1941: India declares war on Japan
1950: Birth of Rajinikanth, Indian actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajinikanth
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/12th-december-1950-rajinikanth-indian-actor-and-superstar-was-born
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USopIY5IK84
1964: Death of Maithili Sharan Gupt Indian poet, born on August 3, 1866
http://www.poemhunter.com/maithili-sharan-gupt/biography/
http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/maithili-sharan-gupt.html
1979: President of Pakistan, Zia-ul-Haq, confers Nishan-e-Imtiaz (Order of Excellence) on Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1979/salam-bio.html
1996: India and Bangladesh sign the sharing of the Ganges water treaty
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~ahmad20m/politics/treaty96text.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharing_the_water_of_the_Ganges
2003: Death of Gangodawila Soma Thero, Sri Lankan monk, born on April 24, 1948
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangodawila_Soma_Thero
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA-xrQ0UbaQ
2005: Death of Ramanand Sagar, Indian director, born December 29, 1917
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0755997/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
http://www.mohdrafi.com/meri-awaaz-suno/rafi-with-ramanand-sagar.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanand_Sagar
2008: Pakistan’s authorities move to close down the offices of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, a charity run by the founder of the group India has blamed for last month’s attacks on Mumbai in which more than 170 people died. Analysts and diplomats have suggested that the charity is being used as a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2008/12/20081211165936763523.html
2013: Bangladesh hangs opposition leader Abdul Quader Mollah over war crimes, making him the first person to be put to death for massacres committed during the country’s bloody 1971 war of independence.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/southasia/2013/12/bangladesh-politician-be-executed-20131212622649656.html
http://www.voanews.com/content/bangladesh-supreme-court-will-not-review-death-penalty/1808614.html
2017: Massive victory: of Left Alliance in Nepal
http://nepalforeignaffairs.com/a-massive-victory-on-left-alliance-landslide-in-nepal-editorial-of-the-hindu-on-nepals-election-result/
http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2017-12-12/election-overview-uml-victorious-in-77-federal-constituencies-leading-in-4.html