2010 in India
Events in the year 2010 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents
Events
January
February
March
April
May
- May 3 – Ajmal Kasab, the only surviving terrorist involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, is found guilty of murder, conspiracy, and waging war against India.[31][32]
- May 6 – Ajmal Kasab, the only surviving member of a group responsible for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, is sentenced to death.[33]
- May 7 – May 2010 Kashmir skirmishes: 5 insurgents and 2 soldiers die in a gunbattle between Islamic rebels and Indian security forces in Kashmir.
- May 7–9 – India International Light Fair & India International Sign Show in Mumbai.
- May 8 – Naxalite rebels blow up a bullet-proof vehicle of the Central Reserve Police Force in the Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, India, killing seven officers.[34]
- May 16 – Maoist guerrillas kill six villagers in an alleged revenge attack in Chhattisgarh, India.[35][36]
- May 17 – 2010 Dantewada bus bombing: Naxalite insurgents blow up a bus in India filled with police and para-militaries. Fatalities reports range from 31[37] to 44,[38] including several Special Police Officers (SPOs) and civilians.[37][39]
- May 19 – 2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season: Cyclone Laila approaches landfall in southeastern India, having already caused at least ten deaths and prompting the evacuations of 10,000 people in Tamil Nadu.[40]
- May 21 – A court restores the Indian Hockey Federation, two years after it was dissolved by the country's Olympic chiefs over bribery allegations and poor on-field results.[41][42]
- May 21 – Six girls aged between eight and twelve years drown in the Rapti in Balrampur while bathing.[43]
- May 22 – Air India Express Flight 812 overshoots the runway at Mangalore International Airport in India, killing 158 and leaving 8 survivors.[44]
- May 23 – Clashes break out between Indian and Pakistani troops near the border in the disputed Kashmir region.[45]
- May 28 – Gyaneshwari Express train derailment: At least 25 people are killed and 150 injured in India after a Mumbai train with 13 passenger coaches is derailed by an explosion on the tracks and collides with another train as it traveled through the Paschim Medinipur district, a rebel stronghold in eastern India.[46][47]
June
- June 2 – 2010 Indian heatwave: A heatwave strikes India and South Asia, reaching 53C (127F) and killing many hundreds of people.[48]
- June 7 – The Magistrate court in Bhopal, India convicts eight people, one posthumously, for their role in the Bhopal disaster industrial castastrophe 25 years ago in 1984.[49]
- June 13 – A 7.5-magnitude earthquake west of India's Nicobar Islands causes tremors felt along India's eastern seaboard and triggers a tsunami watch, which is later cancelled.[50]
- June 17 – Heavy rains claim 46 lives in Maharashtra, India.[51]
- June 23 – 1 person is killed when a crane crashes at Chennai International Airport, Chennai, India.[52]
- June 25 – 17 people are killed and 25 others injured when an overcrowded bus collided head-on with a speeding truck near Chenaki More, about 30 km from Patna, India.[53]
- June 26 – Four people are killed and five wounded in violence in Indian-administered Kashmir's Sopore area.[54]
- June 29 – 2010 Maoist attack in Narayanpur: At least 26 policemen are killed in a Maoist attack in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh.
July
August
September
October
November
December
- 10 December - Agni-II plus missile test fails in Orissa, India test-fired an upgraded version of the Agni-II plus nuclear-capable intermediate range ballistic missile off the Orissa coast. The test was declared a failure. The latest version of the "Agni" series missile is described as a two-stage, solid propellant rail and road mobile missile.
- 26 December – A collision between a bus and a mini-truck kills 34 people and leaves 30 injured, near the town of Badaun in Uttar Pradesh state, in northern India.[90]
- Late December - Onion price rise in Indian markets leads to political tensions.[91]
Predicted and scheduled events
Sports
Hockey
Cricket
Multi Sports Games
Others
Deaths
- 17 January - Jyoti Basu, 95, former Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1914)
- 2 February
- 10 February - Gireesh Puthenchery, 48, Malayalam lyricist and screenwriter (b. 1961)
- 18 February - Nirmal Pandey, 48, film and television actor (b. 1961)
- 23 April - Sreenath, 53, Malayalam film and television actor (b. 1956)
- 10 May - Mac Mohan, 71, character actor (b. 1938)
- 15 May - Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, 86, 11th Vice President of India (b. 1923)
- 24 May - Tapen Chatterjee, 72, Bengali film actor (b. 1937)
- 14 June - Manohar Malgonkar, 96, author in English (b. 1913)
- 17 June - Anjali Mendes, 64, fashion model (b. 1946)
- 25 June - Viveka Babajee, 37, model and actress (b. 1973)
- 2 July - M.G. Radhakrishnan, 69, Malayalam film music director and Carnatic vocalist (b. 1940)
- 23 July - A. Sreedhara Menon, 84, historian. (b. 1925)
- 27 July - Ravi Baswani, 63, actor (b. 1946)
- 1 August - K. M. Mathew, 93, newspaper editor (Malayala Manorama). (b. 1917)
- 10 August - Leo Pinto, 96, field hockey player, Olympic gold medalist (1948). (b. 1914)
- 13 August - Janaki Venkataraman, 89, First Lady (1987–1992) (b. 1921)
- 16 August - Narayan Gangaram Surve, 83, poet. (b. 1926)
- 27 August - Ravindra Kelekar, 85, author, poet and activist. (b. 1925)
- 5 September - Homi Sethna, 86, nuclear scientist and chemical engineer. (b. 1924)
- 8 September - Murali, 46, Tamil actor. (b. 1964)
- 9 September - Venu Nagavally, 61, actor, screenwriter, director in Malayalam film (b. 1949)
- 12 September - Swarnalatha, 37, playback singer. (b. 1973)
- 7 October - A. Venkatachalam, 55, Indian politician[92]
- 8 October - S. S. Chandran, 69, Indian comic actor and politician, member of the Rajya Sabha (2001–2007)[93]
- 20 October - Parthasarathy Sharma, 62, Indian Test cricketer (1974–1977)[94]
- 21 October - A. Ayyappan, 61, Indian poet.[95]
- 2 November - Kalim Sharafi, 85, Indian Bengali language singer.[96]
- 3 November - P. Lal, 81, Indian writer.[97]
- 6 November - Siddhartha Shankar Ray, 90, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (1972–1977), Governor of Punjab (1986–1989)[98]
- 17 November - N. Viswanathan, 81, Indian actor[99]
- 28 November - Mahaveer Prasad, 71, Indian politician[100]
- 23 December - K. Karunakaran, 92, politician, former Chief Minister of Kerala. (b. 1918)
Major Public Holidays
See also
References
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