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2014 in India

2014 in India refers to notable events that took place in the year 2014 in the Republic of India. Among the notable events were the 2014 Indian general election, in which Bharatiya Janata Party obtained a landslide victory and Narendra Modi was sworn in as the new Prime Minister of India. A new state of Telangana was formed. Also in 2014, Mars Orbiter Mission of India successfully entered Mars orbit.

Incumbents

Governors

Elections

General Elections

State Elections

Events

  • National income - 124,679,593 million

January - March

  • 4 January – An under-construction building collapsed killing 30 construction workers in Goa.
  • 5 January – GSAT-14 launched from Sriharikota using GSLV-D5 launch vehicle.
  • 7 January – Prithvi II missile tested at Chandipur test range.
  • 8 January – Notable Maoist leader Gudsa Usendi and his wife surrendered to the Andhra police.
  • 8 January – Facebook buys the Indian start-up Little Eye Labs.
  • 9 January – Devyani Khobragade, an Indian diplomat whose arrest sparked a diplomatic incident involving India and the United States, was indicted for allegedly lying to obtain a work visa for her housekeeper. She left for India same day under diplomatic immunity.
  • 11 January – India says that it has "no stand-off" with the United States even after the Devyani Khobragade incident.
  • 13 January – India and Sri Lanka exchange 52 imprisoned fishermen.
  • 13–15 January – A three-day meeting was held between India and United States intelligence services in New Delhi.
  • 15 January – The United States returned three 11–12th century sculptures worth million stolen by art thieves from temples in India.
  • 17 January – 8 kidnapped girls from the threatened Jarawa tribe rescued in Andaman.
  • 18 January – A stampede broke out in Mumbai in which 18 died. The stampede broke out at the residence of the religious leader Dawoodi Bohras Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, who had died on 17 January.
  • 29 January – Nido Taniam, a 20-year-old student from Arunachal Pradesh died after being beaten up by locals at a marketplace in the Lajpat Nagar area of New Delhi, triggering widespread protests.
  • 5–11 February – 12th Delhi Auto Expo held in India Expo Mart in Greater Noida.
  • 9 February – A ferry capsized in the Hirakud Dam reservoir drowning 31 persons.
  • 10–11 February – Bank employees of 47 banks carried out a nationwide strike for two days demanding banking sector reforms and better pay.
  • 17 February – 2014 Interim-Union budget was presented by Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram.
  • 19 February – Street Vendors Act, 2014 was passed by Rajya Sabha after Lok Sabha passed it on 6 September 2013.
  • 20 February – Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Bill, 2014 passed by Rajya Sabha.
  • 27 February – 2 officers died in INS Sindhuratna mishap.
  • 28 February – Sahara India Chairman Subrata Roy was arrested in Lucknow after the Supreme Court of India issued a non-bailable warrant.
  • 11 March – 15 security personnel killed in a Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh.
  • 13 March – India formally joins the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
  • 22 March – Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) re-approves field trails of ten genetically modified crops, including some food crops.
  • 27 March – Sri Lankan Navy arrested 24 Indian fishermen for crossing the International Maritime Boundary Line.
  • 27 March – India and the entire South-East Asia region was declared Polio-free by WHO.
  • 28 March – A recently acquired C-130J Super Hercules of the Indian Air Force crashed near Gwalior killing all five personnel on board. A volunteer was killed when he was washed away in the Chambal river while searching for survivors.

April - June

July - September

Acharya Shri Mahashraman ji, the 11th acharya of Jain Shwetambar Terapanth sect arrived in the capital of the country

  • 3 August – The chairman and managing director of Syndicate Bank Sudhir Kumar Jain, his brother-in-law and four others were arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a bribery case.
  • 16 August – The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) chief Rakesh Kumar in a bribery case.
  • 21 August – The Kerala government announced that it would close down about 700 bars in a phased manner.
  • 25 August – The Supreme Court declared that all 218 coal block allocations made from 1993 to 2011 are illegal.
  • 28 August – The Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana was formally launched.
  • 4–10 September – 2014 Kashmir floods.
  • 5 September – India and Australia signed a deal under which Australia will supply Uranium to India for energy generation.
  • 13 September – Three Maoists are killed and two are seriously injured in a fight with security forces in Giridih district of Jharkhand.
  • 24 September – India's Mars Orbiter Mission of ISRO successfully entered Mars orbit.
  • 26 September – At least 85 people estimated dead as a result of flash floods and mudslides in North-East India following days of heavy rain.
  • 27 September: The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Jayalalithaa, was convicted by a special court of acquiring disproportionate assets.
  • 30 September – NASA and ISRO signed an agreement to collaborate on an earth-observing satellite called NISAR and future Mars missions.

October - December

  • 2 October – Prime Minister, Narendra Modi launched the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan cleanliness drive.
  • 10 October – The recipients of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize were announced, awarded to India's Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai.
  • 12 October – Cyclone Hudhud made landfall near Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
  • 31 October – Devendra Fadnavis took oath as the 18th Chief Minister of Maharashtra
  • 8 November – 11 women died and more than 20 were hospitalised after a state funded mass-sterilization drive near Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh.
  • 12 November – Public sector bank employees carried out a day-long strike to demand a wage revision.
  • 25 November – Polling begins for Jammu and Kashmir and Jharkhand assembly elections.
  • 27 November – Five civilians and three army personnel were killed in an encounter with militants in Arnia sector, Jammu. Four militants were killed after a day-long gun battle.
  • 1 December – 14 CRPF personnel were killed in Sukma district of south Chhattisgarh when a patrol team was ambushed.
  • 2 December – A CRPF personnel was killed and 4 others were injured when a grenade was tossed at a patrol in Pulwama district in south Kashmir. Three civilians were also injured.
  • 2–6 December – Public sector bank employees carried out a relay strike demanding higher wages. The bank employees did not report to work on 2 December in the south zone, followed by north, east and west zones on 3, 4 and 5 December.
  • 5 December – A militant attack on a military camp killed 8 Indian soldiers and 3 policemen near Uri in Baramulla district. 6 militants were also killed. In a separate incident on the same day, in Soura of Srinagar district, two terrorists were killed in an encounter. In Tral, Pulwama district, a terrorist threw a grenade at a bus stop, which killed 2 civilians.
  • 18 December – ISRO tests a crew reentry module in the Crew Module Atmospheric Re-entry Experiment using a GSLV Mk III launch vehicle.
  • 23–26 December – 81 killed in attacks by National Democratic Front of Bodoland in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam.
  • 30 December – A special CBI court acquits Amit Shah of all the charges in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh case.
  • 31 December – Indian officials said that a Pakistani fishing boat blew itself up on New Year's Eve after being chased an Indian Coast Guard patrol.

Publications

Deaths

January

February – June

July – December

  • 10 July – Zohra Sehgal, 102, theatre artiste, choreographer, film actress (born 1912)
  • 6 August – Pran Kumar Sharma, 75, cartoonist, creator of Chacha Chaudhary (born 1938)
  • 20 August – B. K. S. Iyengar, 95, yoga teacher (born 1918)
  • 22 August – U. R. Ananthamurthy, 81, writer in Kannada (born 1932)
  • 19 September – U. Srinivas also known as Mandolin Srinivas, 45, mandolin player and composer (born 1969)
  • 3 November – Sadashiv Amrapurkar, 64, actor in Hindi and Marathi films (born 1950)
  • 12 November – Ravi Chopra, 68, producer and director in Hindi films (born 1946)
  • 2 December – Deven Verma, 77, actor, comedian (born 1937)
  • 2 December – A. R. Antulay, 85, politician, former Union Cabinet Minister, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra (born 1929)
  • 23 December – K. Balachander, 84, film director, producer, writer, actor, playwright, stage conductor (born 1930)
  • 25 December – N. L. Balakrishnan, 71, still photographer and actor in Malayalam films (born 1943)

Transport

January

  • 2 January – A bus fell into a cliff into a 400-foot ravine in Malshej Ghat, Maharashtra killing at least 27 people and injuring 11 others.
  • 8 January – Mumbai-Dehradun express train caught fire near Thane, killing 9.
  • 26 January – Surat BRTS started operation.
  • 26 January – A boat capsized near Port Blair in Andaman killing 21, mostly tourists.

February

March

April

  • 16 April – The 15666 DN Dimapur-Kamakhya BG Express train derailed near Aujuri in Assam, injuring about 56 passengers.

May

June

July

August

  • 23 August – Balaji Railroad Systems Limited (BARSYL) was given the task of planning the Bhubaneswar Monorail.

December

  • 8 December – Uber and similar service were banned in Delhi, after an Uber driver was accused of rape. Later, other Indian states like Karnataka, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, and the city of Chandigarh banned Uber and similar services.

Sports

Cinema

Bollywood

Sandalwood

Marathi

Tamil

Holidays

List of public holidays in India for 2014:

See also

References