2015 in India

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The following lists events that happened during 2015 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

Photo	Post	Name
	President	Pranab Mukherjee
	Vice President	Mohammad Hamid Ansari
	Prime Minister	Narendra Modi

Elections

State elections

2014 state elections in India
State		Preceding Party	Preceding Chief Minister	New elected party	New Chief Minister	Competitors	Reports
Delhi		Aam Aadmi Party	Arvind Kejriwal (resigned February 2014) Najeeb Jung (Lieutenant Governor)	Aam Aadmi Party	Arvind Kejriwal	Kiran Bedi Ajay Maken	report
Bihar		Janta Dal United	Nitish Kumar				report

Events

January

• 2 – 3 January – Gyan Sangam, a two-day retreat took place at Pune, it was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan and chiefs of various financial institutions.^[1]
• 8 – 9 January – Annual Pravasi Bharatiya Divas conference took place in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.^[2][3]
• 13 January – 32 died in Malihabad, Uttar Pradesh after drinking hooch.^[4]
• 26 January – Republic Day celebrations were held, US President Barack Obama was the chief guest.^[5]
• 27 January – M. N. Rai, a colonel in the Rashtriya Rifles and Sanjeev Kumar Singh, a head constable in the Special Operations Group, died in a gun battle in Tral in Pulwama district. Two militants were also killed. M. N. Rai had been awarded the Yudh Seva medal on 26 January.^[6]
• 31 January – The Agni-V was test launched from a canister in Wheeler Island, suitable for road or rail mobile launch vehicles.^[7]

February

• 8 February – Polling for the New Delhi state elections held.^[8]
• 10 February – Delhi Legislative Assembly election's results announced with Aam Aadmi Party securing 67 of 70 seats.^[9]
• 13 February – A grenade attack by the United Liberation Front of Assam on a family in the town of Sepon in India's Assam state killed two people.^[10]
• 15 February – The number reported deaths of swine flu in India reached 585, with Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra being the worst-affected with reported death tolls at 165, 144, 76 and 58 respectively.^[11]
• 15 February – A house under construction collapsed in the Indian city of Mughalsarai in the state of Uttar Pradesh killing twelve people and injuring two.^[12]
• 16 February – Govind Pansare, a CPI politician and his wife were shot at in Kolhapur, Maharashtra. Govind Pansare later died on 20 February.^[13][14]
• 18 February – The Cabinet Committee on Security approves the construction of seven stealth frigates and six nuclear submarines for the Indian Navy.^[15]
• 18 – 22 February – The 10th edition of Aero India took place at Yelahanka Air Force Station near Bangalore.^[16]
• 23 February – Budget session of the Parliament began with the President's address to the joint session of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.^[17]
• 28 February – Union Budget presented to the Parliament by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.^[18]

March

• 3 March – National Electoral Roll Purification and Authentication Programme launched by the Election Commission of India.^[19]
• 17 March – Supreme Court of India rejected the classification of Jat people as Other Backward Classes.^[20][21]
• 18 March – Beyond visual range (BVR) air-to-air missile, Astra, was successfully test fired from a Su-30MKI in test range in Chandipur, Orissa.^[22]
• 23 March – Amaravathi was announced to be name of the new capital of Andhra Pradesh, to be built near Thullur.^[23]
• 24 March – Supreme Court of India declared Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 unconstitutional.^[24]
• 26 March – National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) unveiled Polar Remotely Operated Vehicle (PROVe), which would be used to study the monsoon.^[25]
• 27 March – Bharat Ratna was awarded to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee^[26]
• 28 March – ISRO placed Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) 1-D satellite in orbit by a PSLV C-27 launch vehicle.^[27]
• 29 March – India began to evacuate its citizens from Yemen.^[28]
• 30 March – Bharat Ratna awarded to freedom fighter Madan Mohan Malaviya posthumously.^[29]

April

• 1 April – Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric vehicles in India (FAME India) scheme was launched by the government to boost electric and hybrid vehicle sales.^[30]
• 5 April – Petroleum and Natural Gas Minster, Dharmendra Pradhan, launched the "Give it Up" campaign urging rich people to give up LPG subsidy.^[31]
• 7 April – Police killed 20 sandalwood smugglers in Chittoor district.^[32]
• 8 April –
  • The Padma awards were given at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. Among the 50 recipients were actor Amitabh Bachchan, actor Dilip Kumar, nuclear scientist M.R. Srinivasan, mathematician Manjul Bhargava, computer scientist Vijay P. Bhatkar, Hindu spiritual guru Swami Satyamitranand and Aga Khan IV.^[33][34]
  • The Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency Bank (MUDRA Bank) was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The financial institution aims to provide financing to small entrepreneurs.^[35]
• 10 April – India completed evacuating citizens from Yemen, and announced the closure of embassy.^[36] In all, about 4,640 Indians and 960 nationals from 41 other countries were evacuated.^[37]
• 11 April – Maoists killed 7 of personnel of Chhattisgarh’s Special Task Force in south Bastar.^[38]

Deaths

January

• 2 January
  • Mrunalini Devi Puar, 83, academician and educationist (born 1931)^[39]
  • Vasant Gowarikar, 81, scientist and ISRO chairman (born 1933).^[40][41]
• 4 January
  • Chitresh Das, 70, Kathak dance instructor and choreographer (born 1944).^[42]
  • Ahuti Prasad, 57, Telugu actor (born 1958).^[43]
  • Upendra Trivedi, 78, Gujarati actor and director (born 1936).^[44]
• 5 January – Ganesh Patro, 69, Telugu playwright and screenwriter (born 1945).^[45]
• 7 January
  • Subhas Anandan, 67, Indian-origin Singaporean criminal lawyer, notable for representing Quan Yi Fong and others (born 1947).^[46]
  • B. S. Abdur Rahman, 87, business executive, educationist and philanthropist; founder of B. S. Abdur Rahman University (born 1927).^[47]
• 9 January – Jasodhara Bagchi, 77, women’s rights activist (born 1937).^[48]
• 13 January – Hara Patnaik, 56, Oriya actor and film director (born 1958).^[49]
• 15 January – Rameshwar Thakur, 88, politician, Governor of Odisha (2004–2006), Andhra Pradesh (2006–2007) and Karnataka (2007–2009); (born 1927).^[50]
• 16 January – Ghelubhai Nayak, 91, social activist and freedom fighter (born 1924).^[51]
• 17 January – Gobinda Haldar, 84, Bengali lyricist and composer (born 1930).^[52]
• 18 January – Harish Chandra Srivastava, 90, politician (born 1925).^[53]
• 19 January – Rajni Kothari, 86, political scientist (born 1928)^[54]
• 23 January – M. S. Narayana, 63, Telugu actor (born 1951)^[55]
• 24 January – V. S. Raghavan, 89, Tamil actor (born 1925)^[56]
• 25 January – Sarojini Mahishi, 88, translator and politician.^[57][58]
• 26 January – R. K. Laxman, 94, cartoonist (born 1921)^[59]
• 27 January – José Pereira, 84, Indian-origin American Sanskrit scholar, theologian and artist from Goa (born 1931).^[60]
• 28 January
  • Mala Aravindan, 76, Malayalam theatre and film actor (born 1939)^[61]
  • Jaswant Singh Rajput, 88, field hockey player, part of Olympic gold medal winning team in 1948) and 1952 (born 1926).^[62]
• 29 January – Subhash Ghisingh, 78, founder of the Gorkha National Liberation Front in the Gorkhaland movement (born 1936)^[63]

February

• 2 February – Anand Shukla, 74, cricketer (born 1941).^[64]
• 7 February – Vasu Malali, 48, Kannada author and film director (born 1967).^[65]
• 13 February – Kesava Reddy, 68, Telugu novelist (born 1946).^[66]
• 16 February
  • R. R. Patil, 57, politician, Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra (2004–2008), (born 1957)^[67][68]
  • Rajinder Puri, 80, cartoonist and political activist (born 1934).^[69]
• 18 February – D. Ramanaidu, 78, Telugu film producer and politician (born 1936)^[70]
• 19 February – Nirad Mohapatra, 67, Oriya film director known for his film Maya Miriga, (born 1947)^[71]
• 20 February – Govind Pansare, 81, political activist and author (born 1933)^[14]
• 23 February – R. C. Sakthi, 76, Tamil film director and actor (born 1940).^[72]
• 24 February – Mayandi Bharathi, 98, Indian independence activist (born 1917).^[73]
• 25 February – A. Vincent, 86, cinematographer (Prem Nagar) and director (Bhargavi Nilayam) (born 1928).^[74]
• 26 February
  • Meera Kosambi, 75, sociologist (born 1936).^[75]
  • Hukam Singh, 89, politician, Chief Minister of Haryana (1990–1991), (born 1926).^[76]

• 26 March – Paty Ripple Kyndiah, 86, politician from Meghalaya.^[77]

March

• 1 March – Atul Tandon, 67, academic, former Director of MICA (born 1948).^[78]
• 2 March – Lavkumar Khachar, 84, ornithologist (born 1931).^[79]
• 3 March – Laxminarayana Mudiraj, 86, politician, Mayor of Hyderabad (1969–1970).^[80]
• 4 March – Ninan Koshy, 81, foreign affairs expert, political thinker and theologian (born 1934).^[81]
• 6 March –
  • Ram Sundar Das, 94, politician, Chief Minister of Bihar (1979–1980), (born 1921).^[82]
  • Kishore Te, 36, film editor, his work Aadukalam won the 2010 National Film Award for Best Editing, (born 1973).^[83]
  • Pheiroijam Parijat Singh, 72, politician (born 1943).^[84]
• 7 March – G. Karthikeyan, 66, politician, speaker of the Kerala Legislative Assembly (born 1949).^[85]
• 8 March – Vinod Mehta, 73, editor of The Pioneer and Outlook magazine, (born 1941).^[86]
• 10 March – Meena Shah, 78, badminton player, Arjuna Award recipient (born 1936).^[87]
• 12 March – Siddalingaiah, 79, Kannada film director, known for his works Bangaarada Manushya and Bhootayyana Maga Ayyu, (born 1936).^[88]
• 13 March – Suzette Jordan, 40, anti-rape campaigner (born 1974).^[89]
• 15 March –
  • Narayan Desai, 90, Gandhian, anti-nuclear activist and Gujarati writer, recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award (born 1924).^[90]
  • Krishna Kalle, 74, Marathi playback singer.^[91]
  • Kavitha Prasad Rallabandi, 53, Telugu poet and civil servant.^[92]
• 16 March – D. K. Ravi, 35, IAS officer.^[93]
• 18 March – Ramesh Chandra Bhanja, 76, writer of Oriya children's literature.^[94]
• 20 March – Shahir Krishnarao Sable, 92, Marathi folk singer-songwriter.^[95]
• 21 March – Yusufali Kechery, 81, Malayalam poet and film producer.^[96]
• 28 March – T. Sailo, 93, former Chief Minister of Mizoram (born 1922)^[97]

April

• 1 April – Kailash Vajpeyi, 79, Hindi poet, Sahitya Akademi Award recipient (born 1923).^[98]
• 4 April – Malli Mastan Babu, 40, mountaineer (born 1974).^[99]
• 7 April – Kalmanje Jagannatha Shetty, 78, judge.^[100]
• 8 April –
  • Abraham Eraly, 80, historian and magazine editor.^[101]
  • Nagore E. M. Hanifa, 89, politician and playback singer.^[102]
  • Jayakanthan, 40, Tamil novelist, recipient of Jnanpith and Sahitya Akademi Award (born 1934).^[103]
• 9 April –
  • Ghulam Rasool Kar, 94, politician.^[104]
  • Hrushikesh Moolgavkar, 94, air chief marshal and Chief of Air Staff (1976–1978).^[105]
  • Narra Raghava Reddy, 92, politician.^[106]
• 11 April – Hanut Singh Rathore, 82, Lieutenant general in Indian Army, played a key role in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, recipient of Maha Vir Chakra (born 1933).^[107]
• 14 April – Vilas Sarang, 73, author.^[108]
• 15 April – Bidyut Chakraborty, 56, film director.^[109]
• 21 April – Janaki Ballabh Patnaik, 89, former Governor of Assam and former Chief Minister of Odisha (born 1927)^[110]

Transport

January – June

• 9 January  – Vistara, a Tata Sons-Singapore Airlines joint-venture airline made its first flight.^[111]
• 13 January – Indian Railway introduced a train that can run both on diesel and CNG.^[112]
• 13 February – Bengaluru-Ernakulam Intercity Express derailed near Bengaluru, killing 9 persons and injuring about 100.^[113]
• 16 February – A bus carrying at least 60 passengers plunged into a gorge in Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh resulting in at least ten deaths and 33 people injured.^[114]
• 26 February – Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu presented the Railway Budget in the Parliament.^[115]
• 14 March – Work on the Ahmedabad Metro began.^[116]
• 19 March – Ratan Tata appointed head of the Kaya Kalp council of the Indian Railways. The council's aim is to introduce innovations and reforms^[117] in the public firm.
• 24 March – Indian Railways launched a pre-paid RuPay debit card for booking tickets.^[118]
• 12 April – Low-cost airline Air Pegasus made first flight.^[119]
• 22 April – Indian Railways launched "utsonmobile" mobile app which would allow people to buy unreserved tickets.^[120]

Sports

January – March

• 14 January – Open water swimmer Bhakti Sharma established a record by swimming 1.4 miles in 52 minutes in 1 °C waters in the Antarctic Ocean.^[121]
• 16 January – Sania Mirza and Bethanie Mattek-Sands won the women's doubles title at the Sydney International.^[122]
• 31 January – 35th National Games began in Kerala.^[123]
• 1 February – Martina Hingis and Leander Paes won the mixed doubles title at the Australian Open.^[124]
• 8 February – Anirban Lahiri won the Malaysian Open (golf) title.^[125]
• 22 February
  • Anirban Lahiri won the Hero Indian Open golf title.^[126]
  • Ranchi Rays won the Hockey India League by defeating Punjab Warriors.^[127]
• 15 March - Srikanth Kidambi won the Swiss Open (badminton) men's singles title by defeating Viktor Axelsen.^[128]
• 22 March - Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis won the 2015 BNP Paribas Open women's doubles title.^[129]
• 28 March – Saina Nehwal reached world's rank #1 in women's badminton, after Carolina Marin lost to Ratchanok Intanon. Nehwal defeated Yui Hashimoto in the semi-final of India Open.^[130]
• 29 March –
  • Saina Nehwal won the India Open title by defeating Ratchanok Intanon.^[131]
  • Srikanth Kidambi won the India Open men's singles title by defeating Viktor Axelsen.^[132]

ICC Cricket World Cup 2015

• 14 February – India defeated Pakistan by 76 runs at the Adelaide Oval in a Pool B match.^[133]
• 22 February  – India defeated South Africa by 130 runs at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in a Pool B match.^[134]
• 28 February – India defeated United Arab Emirates by 9 wickets at the WACA Ground in a Pool B match.^[135]
• 6 March – India defeated West Indies by 4 wickets at the WACA Ground in a Pool B match to reach quarterfinals.^[136][137]
• 14 March – India defeated Zimbabwe by 6 wickets at the WACA Ground in a Pool B match.^[138]
• 19 March – India defeated Bangladesh by 109 runs at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in the quarterfinal to reach the semifinal.^[139]
• 26 March – India was defeated Australia by 95 runs at the Sydney Cricket Ground in the semifinal.^[140]

April – June

• 5 April – Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis won the women's doubles title at the 2015 Miami Open.^[141]
• 7 April – The opening ceremony of the 2015 Indian Premier League took place in Kolkata.^[142]
• 12 April – India won the bronze at Sultan Azlan Shah Cup.^[143]
• 13 April –
  • Sania Mirza reached rank one in women's double.^[144]
  • Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis won the 2015 Family Circle Cup women's doubles title.^[144]
• 15 April – Sachin Tendulkar was inducted into the Laureus Sports Academy.^[145]

July – December

• 26 September–10 October – World Bridge Team Championships will be held in Chennai.^[146]

References

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