2009 in pictures 11 Photos . Updated: 03 Feb 2014, 12:44 AM IST Livemint While 'Slumdog Millionaire' stole the show at the 2009 Academy Awards by winning eight awards, the year also saw the death of US pop singer Michael Jackson 1/11Satyam Computer Services chairman Ramalinga Raju resigns on 7 January, confesses he had manipulated the company’s accounts by $1.47 billion. HT 2/11A.R. Rahman at the Oscars on 22 February. Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire wins 8 Academy Awards for best picture, director, adapted screenplay, cinematography, original score, original song for Jai Ho, film editing and sound mixing. AFP 3/11Leaders of the “Group of 20” nations at a summit in London on 2 April vow tough actions against tax havens. AFP 4/11General election is held in India to the 15th Lok Sabha in five phases between 16 April and 13 May. With an electorate of 714 million, this has been the largest democratic election held in the world to date. HT 5/11Manmohan Singh is sworn in as Prime Minister on 22 May for a second term after the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), led by the Indian National Congress, gets a majority. HT 6/11Sri Lankan soldiers stand guard next to a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) tank in Kilinochchi. Sri Lanka’s army declares victory on 18 March in its decades-old conflict with LTTE. AFP 7/11Meira Kumar is elected unopposed as the first woman Speaker of the Lok Sabha on 3 June. HT 8/11US pop singer Michael Joseph Jackson dies on 25 June, reportedly from a cardiac arrest, at a rented mansion at 100 North Carolwood Drive in Holmby Hills district, Los Angeles. AFP 9/11A 148-year-old colonial law banning homosexual intercourse is overturned by the Delhi high court on 2 July. HT 10/11US President Barack Obama speaks after winning the Nobel Peace Prize at the White House in Washington, D.C., on 9 October. Obama won the Prize just nine months into his term in office. AFP 11/11Manmohan Singh meets US President Barack Obama on 24 November at the White House in Washington in the first official meeting between the two leaders. Bloomberg