As of 2008, there was one satellite earth station, operated by Intelsat in the Indian Ocean.

* Chittaranjan Mitra ( 1926 – 2008 ), or C. R. Mitra, an Indian Scientist

In July 2008, the Washington Times reported that nearly a fourth of the 540 Indian Parliament members faced criminal charges, " including human trafficking, immigration rackets, embezzlement, rape and even murder ".

Quoting the Indian Foreign Ministry, ' India was the largest export partner and ninth largest import partner of Jordan in 2008.

* King ( 2008 film ), Indian film directed by Sreenu Vaitla

According to research, the vulture population has undergone a sharp decline on the Indian subcontinent, 95 % decline in 2004, 99. 9 % decline as of 2008 due to the use of diclofenac in animals.

It has been owned by the Indian company Tata Motors since 2008, forming part of their Jaguar Land Rover ( JLR ) group.

" Indian Folklore Research Journal 5. 8 ( 2008 ): 55-57.

In May 2008, she was given a tribute by Indian Film Festival at Los Angeles.

In February 2008, Muralitharan was slated to play Twenty20 cricket for the Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League ( IPL ).

Strategies and Institutions in American Indian Economic Development ( 2008 ), are summarized as follows:

On October 11, 2008, the Phoenix Suns and the Denver Nuggets played the first outdoor game in the modern era of the NBA at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.

* Indian Premier League-The BCCI's response to the Indian Cricket League, this Twenty20 league launched in 2008 with teams in Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Mohali and Mumbai, Kochi.

As of the American Community Survey Three-Year Estimate of 2006 – 2008, the city's population was 67. 0 % White ( 65. 8 % non-Hispanic White alone ), 26. 5 % Black or African American, 1. 0 % American Indian and Alaska Native, 3. 5 % Asian, 0. 1 % Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, 0. 7 % from some other race and 2. 1 % from two or more races.

* 1988 – Ishmeet Singh, Indian singer ( d. 2008 )

Kelli Ali ( Dayton ) recorded her third solo album Rocking Horse at the beginning of 2008 and released it through One Little Indian late Autumn 2008.

An Indian version of The Importance of Being Earnest in Telugu by the name " Ashta Chamma " was released in 2008 and was a critical and commercial success.

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* March 7 – M. N. Nambiar, Indian film actor ( d. 2008 )

* Edwards, Brendan Frederick R. ( 2008 ) "' He Scarcely Resembles the Real Man ': images of the Indian in popular culture ".

On 29 June 2008, four Indian cities ( Delhi, Bangalore, Pondicherry and Kolkata ) saw coordinated pride events.

There are large gaps in the fossil record but the discovery of a proto-frog from the Early Permian in Texas in 2008 provided a missing link with many of the characteristics of modern frogs.

The popular AFI 100 Years … series, which ran from 1998 to 2008, and created jury-selected lists of America ’ s best movies in categories including Musicals, Laughs and Thrills, drove new generations to experience classic American films.

Retrieved September 30, 2008, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online: http :// www. britannica. com / EBchecked / topic / 243212 / Great-Drought

The Armenian government collected 383. 5 billion drams ($ 1. 26 billion ) in various taxes in the first nine months of 2008 ( a 33. 2 percent increase from the same period last year ).

Over half of the tax revenues in the January – August 2008 time period were generated from value-added taxes ( VAT ).

It hosted the annual Hall of Fame Game, an exhibition game between two major league teams that was played from 1940 until 2008.

In 2008, Penny Sartori, an intensive care nurse from Swansea, published a book about near death experiences following 10 years of research.

In interviews made before his 2009 death, Woolfson said he planned to release one track from the " Sicilian " album, which in 2008 appeared as a bonus track on a CD re-issue of the Eve album.

* 2008 – Georgia launches a large-scale military offensive against South Ossetia, in an attempt to reclaim the territory from Russia, starting the 2008 South Ossetia war.

* 2008 – A EuroCity express train en-route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing 8 people and injuring 64 others.

According to Alexei Nakamura, as of 2012, there are only 205 Ainu living in Russia ( up from just 12 people who self-identified as Ainu in 2008 ) and they along with the Kurile Kamchadals ( Itelmen of Kuril islands ) are fighting for official recognition.

* 1888 – Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.

On April 26, Matt Ryan ( quarterback from Boston College ) was drafted third overall in the 2008 NFL Draft by the Falcons.

The Atlanta Falcons hold the record among all major American sports leagues for the longest streak of seasons without consecutive winning seasons, a streak that lasted from 1966 – 2008.

Most recently the 2008 movie Iron Man used the Larghetto movement from Salieri's Piano Concerto in C major.

Ajax's shirts have been sponsored by TDK, and by ABN AMRO from 1991 to 2008.

In November 2008, the UK based think tank Demos published an influential pamphlet entitled ' It's a material world: caring for the public realm ', in which they argue for integrating the public directly into efforts to conserve material culture, particularly that which is in the public, their argument, as stated on page 16, demonstrates their belief that society can benefit from conservation as a paradigm as well as a profession:

The ANC and its members were officially removed from the United States terrorism watch list in 2008.

Following Zuma's accession to the ANC leadership in 2007 and Mbeki's resignation as president in 2008, the Mbeki faction of former ministers led by Mosiuoa Lekota split away from the ANC to form the Congress of the People.

Hesser applied for a buyout from the Times in late March 2008 and is no longer with the newspaper.

A 2008 Senate investigation found that Biederman also received $ 1. 6 million in speaking and consulting fees between 2000 and 2007 — some of them undisclosed to Harvard — from companies including makers of antipsychotic drugs prescribed for children with bipolar disorder.

The third London revival ran at the Menier Chocolate Factory from November 22, 2008 until March 8, 2009.

He was a brilliant guy — but a little screwed up ," Frazetta has said ( from The Comic Art of Frank Frazetta, 2008 ).

The Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts produced a limited-run revival of the musical from January 11 to 27, 2008.