2017 in India

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2017 in India highlights the national level events and incidents happened during the year.

Incumbents

Photo	Post	Name
	President	Ram Nath Kovind
	Vice President	Venkaiah Naidu
	Prime Minister	Narendra Modi

Elections

President

Vice President

Further Information : Indian vice-presidential election, 2017

• Presidential elections will be held before 25 July 2017 as the incumbent president end term on this date.
• Vice Presidential elections will be held before 19 August 2017 as the incumbent vice president end term on this date.

State

Events

January

• 2 January - Nuclear-Capable Agni-IV Missile Tested Successfully.^[2]
• 14 January - 25 Died after boat capsizes in river Ganga In Bihar's Patna during Makkar Sankranti Celebration.^[3]
• 15 January - ABU International Dance Festival is scheduled in Hyderabad.
• January - Heavy snowfall in Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttrakhand disrupt normal life. Heaviest snowfall recorded of two decades at most of the places .^[4]
• 25 January - UAE delegation led by Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, crowned prince Abu Dhabi visited India to sign 14 agreements including strategic partnership, defense industries, transport, cyber security and shipping.^[5]
• 25 – 26 January - Avalanche and snow slide hit Jammu & Kashmir. 25 including 20 military personnel died. Rescue operation performed.^[6]

February

• 1 February - Union budget for 2017 – 18 is presented by Arun Jaitely in Lok Sabha.^[7] 92 year old Railway Budget is merged in this budget.^[8]
• Legislatively election in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Manipur, Uttrakhand and Goa will take place from 4 February to 8 March.
• 6 February - 5.8 magnitude earthquake hit Uttrakhand, North India. One died.^[9]
• 15 February - ISRO launched PSLV-C37 rocket which put into orbit a record 104 satellites from seven countries.^[10]

March

• 6 March - Indian Navy's oldest serving aircraft carrier INS Viraat decommissioned after 30 years of its service.^[11]
• 7 March - ISIS planned low intensity explosion in Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train.Nine injured. UP ATS shot down one terrorist in Lucknow, 8 suspect were caught from Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.^[12]
• 11 March – Election result of Legislative election in five states declared by Election Commission.
• 11 March – 12 CRPF personnel killed in Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh.^[13]
• 14 March - Manohar Parrikar took oath as the new Chief Minister of Goa.^[14]
• 15 March - Biren Singh took oath as the new Chief Minister of Manipur.^[15]
• 16 March - Amarinder Singh took oath as the new Chief Minister of Punjab.^[16]
• 18 March - Adityanath Yogi took oath as the new Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
• 26 March - Lucknow Metro North-South line is expected to be opened.

June

• 9 June - India along with archival Pakistan became full members of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.^[17]
• 16 June- Gorkhaland Agitations in Darjeeling, West Bengal.
• 17 June- Kochi Metro inaugurated.
• 19 June- BJP announced Ramanath Kovind as its Presidential Candidate for Presidential Election^[18]
• 23 June - ISRO puts 31 satellites including 29 satellites from others countries through PSLV C-38 successfully.^[19]

July

• 1 July - Goods and Services Tax (India) launched in India. The India's biggest tax reform in 70 years of independence, was launched at midnight of 30 June 2017.
• 10 July - 7 pilgrims killed, 16 injured during Amaranth Yatra in terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag.^[20]
• 11 July - Major landslide occurred in Arunachal Pradesh. 14 people died while many injured^[21]
• 12 July - 3 terrorist shot dead in Badgam
• 15 July - 3 terrorist of Jaish e Mohammad shot dead in Tral of Jammu & Kashmir by Indian militant .^[22]
• 16 July - 16 Amaranth devotees killed in an bus accident in Jammu and Kashmir.
• 17 July - Indian presidential elections will be held.
• July - Heavy rain due to Monsoon raised level of most of the rivers causing flood in many states. More than 200 died.^[23]
• 17 July - BJP led NDA declared Vankya Naydu as their candidate for Vice - President election.
• 18 July - Congress protests against Madhur Bhandarkar's film Indu Sarkar based on 1975 Emergency in India.
• 20 July - Ram Nath Kovind won the 2017 Indian presidential election with 65.65% votes against Meira Kumar, the presidential candidate of the opposition.^[24]
• 25 July - Ram Nath Kovind took oath as 14th President of India.
• 26 July - Nitish Kumar (JDU) resignes as Chief Minister of Bihar, breaking the coalition with RJD & Indian National Congress.^[25]
• 27 July - NDA (JDU + BJP) led government comes in Bihar. Nitish Kumar and Sushil Modi took oath as chief minister and vice chief minister of Bihar respectively.^[26]
• July - 2017 Gujarat flood resulting in more than 200 deaths.^[27]
• July - 2017 West Bengal floods; 50 died.

August

• 1 August - Lashkar-E-Taiba militant Abu Dujana Shot dead by Indian Army In Jammu and Kashmir
• 4 August - Indian National Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi's car attacked by mob in Banaskatha in Gujarat
• 5 August - Venkaiah Naidu won the Indian vice-presidential election with 67.89% votes against Gopalkrishna Gandhi the opposition candidate. ^[28]
• 6 August - Bangladeshi Terrorist arrested by Uttar Pradesh Police in Muzaffarnagar
• 7 August - Kerala High Court removed life-time ban on cricketer S. Shreesanth
• 9 August - Maratha Kranti Morcha starts in Mumbai for the demand for reservation for the Maratha Community in the state of Maharashtra
• 11 August - Venkaiah Naidu took oath as 13th Vice President of India.
• 15 August - Nation celebrates 70th Independence Day.

December

• Opening of Noida Metro is planned.

In The News

• Indian Economy is expected to surpass United Kingdom Economy in 2017 according to new International Monitory Fund report due to 20% drop in pound and Brexit. Thus India will become world's sixth strongest economy.^[29][30]
• GSAT-7A military communication, GSAT-9 multi brand communication, GSAT-11 geostationary communications satellites launched by ISRO.
• ISRO launched GSAT-17 and GSAT-19E communications satellites.
• Indian Air Force may get S-400 Triumph Missile System by 2017.^[31]
• Disputed detention of Kulbhushan Jadhav in Pakistan.^[32]
• Dangal become the first Indian film to gross over 2000 crore rupees in all languages worldwide.^[33]
• India China military stand off in Doklam over border dispute.
• India Pakistan Military skirmish on Kashmir conflict.
• Shimla Gudia rape and murdered case.

Sports

International Events

• 2 - 8 January – Chennai Open scheduled in Chennai.
• 24 - 29 January – Syed Modi International Grand Prix Gold scheduled in Lucknow.
• 16 - 19 February – India Open Squash is scheduled in New Delhi.
• 19 - 26 February – India participated in 2017 Asian Winter Games.
• 28 March – 2 April – India Super Series was held in New Delhi.
• 10 - 14 May – 2017 Asian Wrestling Championship held in New Delhi, India.^[34]
• 6 - 9 July – 2017 Asian Athletics Championship held in Bhubaneswar.
• 6 - 28 October – FIFA U-17 World Cup is scheduled.
• 1 - 8 December - The 2016-17 Men's FIH Hockey World League Final will take place in Bhubaneswar, India.

Domestic Leagues

League	Duration	Participation	Seasons	Winner/s
Premier Badminton League	1 January – 14 January	6 Clubs	Season 3	Chennai Smashers
Pro Wrestling League	2 January – 19 January	6 Clubs	Season 2	Punjab Royals
I League	7 January – 29 April	10 Clubs	Season 10	Aizawl FC
Hockey India League	21 January – 26 February	6 Clubs	Season 5	Kalinga Lancers
Super Fight League	20 January – 25 February	8 Clubs	Season 1	Sher e Punjab
UBA Pro Basketball League	16 February – 16 March	8 Clubs	Season 4	Mumbai Challengers
Indian Premier League	5 April – 21 May	8 Clubs	Season 10	Mumbai Indians
Federation Cup	7 May - 21 May	8 Clubs	Season 38	Bengaluru FC
Duleep Trophy	23 August- 14 September	3 Clubs	Season 55	India Blue
Super Boxing League	7 July - 12 August	8 Clubs	Season 1
Pro Kabaddi League	28 July - October	12 Clubs	Season 5
Ultimate Table Tennis League	13 July -	6 Clubs	Season 1
Premier Futsal Leaue	15 September -	8 Clubs	Season 2
Indian Super League	November - April	10 clubs	Season 4
Tamil Nadu Premier League	August 2017	8 Clubs	Season 2

Deaths

January

• 1 January – Abis Rizvi, 48, businessman, Film Producer (born 1968)^[35]
• 3 January – H. S. Mahadeva Prasad, 58, MLA, minister of state in Karnataka (born 1958)^[36]
• 4 January – Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan, 89, sitar player (born 1927)^[37]
• 5 January – Gangmumei Kamei, 77, politician, former minister in Manipur (born 1939)^[38]
• 6 January – Om Puri, 66, actor, (born 1950)^[39]
• 7 January – Ramanuja Devnathan, 57, Sanskrit scholar (born 1959)^[40]
• 12 January – Sudhindra Chandra Dasgupta, 79, former President of BJP Tripura (born 1937)^[41]
• 14 January – Surjit Singh Barnala, 91, former Union minister, former Chief Minister of Punjab, former Governor of several states (born 1925)^[42]
• 14 January – C. V. Vishveshwara, 78, scientist, black hole physicist (born 1938)^[43]
• 18 January – Zohurul Hoque, 90, Islamic scholar (born 1926)^[44]
• 22 January – Naqsh Lyallpuri, 88, ghazal and film lyricist (born 1928)^[45]
• 26 January – Ramdas Agarwal, 79, former BJP Rajya Sabha MP from Rajasthan (born 1937)^[46]

February

• 1 February – E. Ahamed, 78, former Minister of State, MP from Kerala (born 1938)^[47]
• 1 February – Asim Basu, 81, theatre artiste, film art director (born 1935)^[48]
• 13 February – Salma Siddiqui, 85, novelist in Urdu (born 1931)^[49]
• 16 February – Krishnaraj Sriram, 43, first-class cricketer for Karnataka (born 1973)^[50]
• 17 February – Ved Prakash Sharma, 61, writer of novels and screenplays in Hindi (born 1955)^[51]
• 18 February – Jambuwantrao Dhote, 77, former MP and MLA from Maharashtra (born 1939)^[52]
• 20 February – Antony Mitradas, 103, film director in Tamil, Malayalam and Sinhalese (born 1913)^[53]
• 26 February – Mushi Santappa, 93, polymer chemist, leather technologist, former vice chancellor of Sri Venkateswara University and the University of Madras (born 1923)^[54]
• 28 February – Haji Abdul Salam, 68, Rajya Sabha MP from Manipur (born 1948)^[55]

March

• 1 March – Raajesh Johri, 64, poet, lyricist, ad film maker (born 1952)^[56]
• 1 March – Shiv K. Kumar, 95, English poet, playwright, novelist, short story writer (born 1921)^[57]
• 1 March – Taarak Mehta, 87, columnist, humorist, writer, playwright (born 1929)^[58]
• 6 March – Joachim Baxla, 66, four time MP from Alipurduars constituency, West Bengal (born 1955)^[59]
• 6 March – Rabi Ray, 90, former Union Minister and speaker of the Lok Sabha (born 1926)^[60]
• 7 March – Kalika Prasad Bhattacharya, 47, folk singer and researcher from Assam (born 1970)^[61]
• 11 March – Cheyyar Ravi, 54, film and television director (born 1962)^[62]

April

• 27 April - Vinod Khanna , 70, Veteran Actor, Former Minister of State (born 1946), Bladder Cancer.^[63]

May

• 17 May - Rima Lagoo , 59, Actress, Cardiac Arrest.^[64]
• 18 May - Anil Dave , 60, Cabinet Minister, Environmentalist, Lung Cancer.^[65]
• 26 May - K P S Gill, 82, IPS officer.^[66]

June

• 2 June 2017 - C. Narayana Reddy , Writer & Composer.

July

• 2 July - Madhukar Toradmal , 84, Marathi Actor, Professor, Writer, Play-Translator^[67]
• 11 July - Mangesh Tendulkar , 83, Artist, Cartoonist, Indian Humorist.^[68]
• 24 July - Yash Pal Singh , 90, Scientist, Educationist.
• 24 July - U R Rao, 84, Space Scientist.^[69]
• 28 July - Inder Kumar, 43, Actor.
• 30 July - H. Sayeeduddin Dagar, 78, Indian Classical Vocalist.

August

• 1 August - Pushpa Mittra Bhargava, 89, Scientist, Administrator
• 2 August - Santosh Mohan Dev, 83, Politician, Former Minister in UPA Government.
• 9 August - Sanwar Lal Jat, 62, Member of Parliament from Ajmer, Rajasthan

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