* January 15: The Chief Minister of Maharashtra resigns, he is later replaced by Sushil Kumar Shinde.

In 1999, he resumed the tour in Malaysia, in which Salman Khan and Twinkle Khanna replaced Akshay Kumar and Kajol.

In December 1995, Tousignant was replaced by Indian Shiva Kumar.

Martin Love signed a contract for Warwickshire CCC in October 2006, but injured himself before joining up with the squad and was subsequently replaced by Kumar Sangakkara

Akshaye Khanna opted out of the project subsequently and was replaced by Lucky Ali, while Malaika Arora stepped in Lisa Ray's shoes and Namrata Singh Gujral was cast opposite Kumar Gaurav in lieu of Shilpa Shetty.

Satindra Bhattacharya replaced Uttam Kumar as Bakshi while Shailen Mukherjee reprised his role as Ajit.

On 30 May 2007 and 10 August 2008, former CBI Directors Vijay Shankar and Ashwani Kumar respectively signed orders saying there was no need to challenge the discharge of Sant Singh Chatwal and his co-accused.

He had a vision for Maharashtra and was equally concerned about farmers and youngsters ;" while Minister of State for Science and Technology Ashwani Kumar called Deshmukh a " great human being " who had an ability to connect with people and that " he was very unwell.

* Neumann, Karl-Hermann ; Kumar, Ashwani ; and Sopory, Sudhir K. Recent Advances in Plant Biotechnology and Its Applications.