* 25 August – Notorious bandit Veerappan abducts a former minister of Karnataka, Hannur Nagappa, threatening to behead him unless the state governments of Karnataka and neighbouring Tamil Nadu release imprisoned Tamil separatists.

* 8 December – Police confirm they have found the body of H. Nagappa, the former Karnataka minister kidnapped by Veerappan in August.

On August 25, 2002, Veerappan abducted H. Nagappa, a former minister of Karnataka State.

The operation was successful as Veerappan was finally killed by the task force on 18 October 2004.

Veerappan had a price of on his head but evaded arrest for 20 years until he was killed by police in 2004.

Veerappan never hesitated to kill civilians and villagers for silliest reasons and killed a villager named Kottinaiker of Gopinatham ( his native village ) just because he had once travelled in a police jeep.

In August 1992, Veerappan laid a trap for SP Harikrishna and SI Shakeel Ahmed and killed them along with four others.

On October 18, 2004, Veerappan and his two associates were killed by the Tamil Nadu-Karnataka Combined Special Task Force headed by Vijay Kumar, near the village of Papparapatti in Dharmapuri district, Tamil Nadu.

Veerappan and his associates were killed in a gun battle by the task force.

Apparently killed heir apparent ' Baby ' Veerappan.

STF officers from both the states held meetings with villagers of the Gopinatham village and requested them to help to nab Veerappan and also offerred Rs. 5 crore prize money to be used for overall development of village.

Negotiations were conducted and R. Gopal, also known as " nakkeran gopalan ", an editor of a Tamil magazine called " Nakkeeran " was involved in several rounds of talks with Veerappan.

* There were scores of regional films in Tamil and Kannada with Veerappan as its antagonist like the Tamil movie Captain Prabhakaran and Kannada movie Veerappan, all of which were super hits.

* Birds, Beasts and Bandits: 14 days with Veerappan is a book written by Krupakar and Senani, who were kidnapped by Veerappan in 1997.

Three months later, Veerappan attacked the Ramapura police station of Kollegal taluk in the Chamarajanagar district, killing several policemen and capturing arms and ammunition, on the pretext that they tortured a lady which resulted in her suicide.

More recently, dacoit Veerappan of Tamil Nadu state evaded authorities for decades until he was shot dead in 2004.

Since much of the southern area of the district is dense forest, it provided good refuge to the notorious bandit Veerappan, responsible for the death of over a hundred policemen.

She sent a special task force to the Satyamangalam forests in October 2004 to hunt down notorious sandalwood smuggler Veerappan.

Veerappan became a lieutinant and fellow actress, J. Jayalilatha was groomed as a possible heir apparent.

* 30 July-The Indian film idol Rajkumar is part of a group taken hostage by a notorious Karnataka bandit known as Veerappan.

* Mid-November-Three months of extreme embarrassment for the state governments of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka end when the notorious aging bandit Veerappan suddenly releases an even older veteran actor, Rajkumar, he had held captive since August.

Later robber heroes included the Cavalier highwayman James Hind, the French-born gentleman highwayman Claude Du Vall, John Nevison, Dick Turpin, Sixteen String Jack, the Slovak Juraj Jánošík, and quite a few Indians including Kayamkulam Kochunni, Veerappan and Phoolan Devi.

At the age of 71, he was kidnapped in Gajanur ( the place where he brought up ) by forest brigand Veerappan until a 108-day ordeal when he was released.

On July 30, 2000, at the age of 72, Rajkumar, his son-in-law Govindaraju, and two others were abducted from the actor's palatial house at Gajanur ( prior to 1947, it was in Princely State of Mysore now in Erode district of Tamil Nadu ) by Veerappan.

Veerappan was demanding the release of his gang members who were being held in jail under a defunct anti-terrorism law.

The Supreme Court of India opined that it was " unpardonable " on the part of the Government of Tamil Nadu for not providing security to Rajkumar despite having information a year ago that he faced threat of being kidnapped by Veerappan.

Koose Muniswamy Veerappan ( January 18, 1952 – October 18, 2004 ), commonly known as Sandalwood Veerappan, was an Indian dacoit active for years in a broad swath of scrub and forest land covering 6, 000 km² in the states of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

Koose Muniswamy Veerappan, a. k. a. Veerappan, was born on January 18, 1952 in Gopinatham village located in border areas of Karnataka state to a family of cattle grazers.

In addition, in lieu of making another music video for her Strange Angels album, Anderson taped a series of 1-to 2-minute " Personal Service Announcements " in which she spoke about issues such as the U. S. national debt and the arts scene.

The coverage can also include analysis from experts on the issues, commonly featured in or after the taped reports.

The Dawn Christadelphians use a statement of faith which is based on the original 1886 statement of faith, but has four additions addressing issues that have arisen since that time.

In a meeting with 8 Jewish and 8 Protestant Dutch leaders in Israel in May 2011, a statement of cooperation was issued, indicating, for the most part, that the Protestant Church recognizes the issues involved with the Palestinian Christians and that this is sometimes at odds with support for the State of Israel, but standing up for the rights of the Palestinians does not detract from the emphasis on the safety of the State of Israel and vice versa.

Its remit was ' to provide a considered statement about hypnosis and important issues concerning its application and practice in a range of contexts, notably for clinical purposes, forensic investigation, academic research, entertainment and training.

Two-thirds ( 67 %) said agreed with the statement: “ In dealing with political and social issues, news organizations tend to favor one side .” That was up 14 points from 53 percent who gave that answer in 1985.

The Chinese expressed no concern at this statement, and in 1951 and 1952, the government of China asserted that there were no frontier issues to be taken up with India.

Sales, John M. Olin Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center, testified by written statement before the House Committee on the Budget on the constitutional issues in connection with the proposed legislation.

On September 9, Barros Sierra issues a statement to the students and teachers to return to class as “ our institutional demands … have been essentially satisfied by the recent annual message by the Citizen President of the Republic .” This was followed by the CNH issuing a paid announcement in the newspaper El Día for the Silent March on September 13 and inviting “ all workers, farmers, teachers, students, and the general public ” to participate in the march.

Joint inquiry team issues statement that a white Mitsubishi L300 van loaded with explosives stopped minutes before the blast in front of Sari club.

Despite some progress ( and Chamberlain's statement that they were united on ninety-nine out of a hundred issues ), the problem of Home Rule for Ireland could not be resolved.

However, at the prompting of the NBC network head, Van Doren issues a statement reaffirming his trust in the honesty of the quiz show.

A statement released by the Georgian Orthodox Church attempted to downplay the controversy as " artificial ", suggesting that " someone wants to portray the Church as a censor " in order to dissuade church officials from speaking out on future issues.

Key information about new issues of municipal bonds ( including, among other things, the security pledged for repayment of the bonds, the terms of payment of interest and principal of the bonds, the tax-exempt status of the bonds, and material financial and operating information about the issuer of the bonds ) typically is found in the issuer's official statement.

Clinton's initiative led to the Taba negotiations in January 2001, where the two sides published a statement saying they had never been closer to agreement ( though such issues as Jerusalem, the status of Gaza, and the Palestinian demand for compensation for refugees and their descendants remained unresolved ), but Barak, facing elections, resuspended the talks.

* The UN Security Council issues a statement expressing its concern over Iraq's obstructive behavior, which it terms " a clear violation of Iraq's obligations under relevant resolutions.

* The UN Security Council issues a statement calling on Iraq to cooperate fully with the commission and says that failure by Iraq to provide immediate, unconditional and unrestricted access to any site is an unacceptable and clear violation of Security Council resolutions.

On January 6, 2012, Howard posted a statement of his own on his Facebook page and the band's official website to explain his reasons for leaving, which included medical issues as well as a loss of enthusiasm for writing and touring.

To address these issues, the AAA ’ s Executive Board released a statement on the HTS project on 31 October 2007.

The statement cites, “ sufficiently troubling and urgent ethical issues ” raised by the HTS project, including the difficulties for HTS anthropologists to receive informed consent without coercion from their research subjects and to uphold their ethical mandate to “ do no harm ” to those they study.

In response to Senior White House Advisor David Axelrod's statement on President Obama's position: " The president does oppose same-sex marriage but he supports equality for gay and lesbian couples in benefits and other issues ", Maddow said, " Got that?

in African issues, which led Tatchell to respond in the comments sections with the argument that he favoured working with the radical LGBTI groups in Africa rather than the more conservative leaders who had signed the statement.

The mostly-Trinitarian leadership, fearing that the new issue of Oneness might overtake their organization, drew up a doctrinal statement affirming the truth of Trinitarian dogma, among other issues.

iSugoi. com gave the film an overall positive review, and commented that " Such issues as self value, respect and friendship are brought up numerous times within the film, and it ’ s through these attributes that the film delivers a hauntingly poignant statement concerning a societal problem that exists within modern day Japan.

* The Catholic Bishops ' Conference of the Philippines ( CBCP ) issues a statement condemning the elections as fraudulent.

In that year Ernest Marples, the Transport minister, was asked in the Commons if he could make a statement about the issue of car parking in play street ; he responded by indicating that he had only occasionally received complaints about parking issues in play streets.