Important Events in India in 2012

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Important Events in India in 2012

2-Jan

India-Pakistan exchanged lists of nuclear installations.

3-Jan

President Pratibha Patil inaugurated ISROs SHAR Mission Control Centre at Satish Dhawan Space

Centre, Sriharikota.

9-Jan

10th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas held Jaipur. Pravasi Bartiya Divas is celebrated on 9th January every

year.

11-Jan

Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh launched the Hunger and Malnutrition (HUNGaMA) report.

Report says 42 per cent of Indian children are malnourished.

19-Jan

Suresh Kalmadi granted bail by Delhi High Court granted bail in Commonwealth Games scam case.

26-Jan

Thailand PM, Yingluck Shinawatra invited as Chief Guest on the Republic Day

2-Feb

Supreme Court cancelled all 122 licenses granted by then minister A Raja in 2G spectrum scam.

8-Feb

Three Bharatiya Janata Party ministers caught watching objectionable video clip in KarnatakaAssembly. The ministers resigned.

11-Feb

Advanced Interceptor missile is successfully test-fired. The advanced interceptor is also known as

Advanced Air Defence (AAD).

14-Feb

Blast in a car belonging to the Israeli Embassy in Delhi.

March

State Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and Goa.

March

Election results for five state assemblies are announced. Winners of elections as follows:

Uttar Pradesh - Samajwadi Party

Goa - Bhartiya Janata Party

Manipur & Uttrakhand - Indian National Congress

Punjab - Shiromani Akali Dal - BJP combine


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14-Mar

Rail Budget 2012-13 presented by Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi. The budget proposed fare hikes

and is opposed by TMC despite the Railway Minister belonging to the same party.

16-Mar

Union Budget 2012-13 presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee.

18-Mar

Dinesh Trivedi stepped down as Railways Minister

21-Mar

Soumitra Chatterjee won Dadasaheb Phalke award for 2011.

22-Mar

United Nations Human Rights Councils resolution to investigate violations by Sri Lanka during the

war on LTTE goes to vote. India along with 23 other nations vote against Sri Lanks.

23-MarJhina Hikaka, BJD MLA abducted from Koraput district on March 23. He was finally released on 26

April

29-Mar

India hosted 4th BRICS summit at New Delhi

8-Apr

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari visited India. The last Pakistani leader to visit India was President

Pervez Musharraf in 2005.

12-AprOde village massacre during 2002 Gujrat riots- 18 get life term, 5 accused get seven years

imprisonment.

17-Apr

RBI cut repo rate by 50 basis points. The cut came after three years.

19-Apr

Agni-V ICBM successfully test fired from Wheeler island. It can carry 1 ton of nuclear weapons.

21-Apr

Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon kidnapped by Maoists in Chhattisgarh. He was finally

released on 4th May.

26-Apr

Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, Actress Rekha and Industrialist Anu Aga nominated to Rajya Sabha by the

President of India.

1-May

Overy dead after a ferry capsized in Brahmaputra, Assam.


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7-May

GAAR (General Anti Avoidance Rules) implementation postponed till 2013.

8-May

Over 160 Air India fail to report on duty. 10 sacked

13-May

60th anniversary of Indian parliament

15-May

A.Raja got bail in 2G scam

27-May

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) won the Indian Premier League

31-May

Bikram Singh takes over as Indian Army Chief from V.K. Singh

1-Jun

Brahmeshwar Singh, chief of banned Ranvir Sena killed by unidentified assailants.

11-Jun

VS Sampath becomes the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC)

19-Jun

India pledges $10 bn to IMF for Eurozone.

22-JunCalcutta High Court strikes down Singur Land Act of West Bengal government led by Mamata

Banerjee

26-Jun

Abu Jundal is arrested by Delhi Police.

28-Jun

Surjeet Singh returns to India after being jailed for 30 years in Pakistan.

30-Jun

20 Maoists killed in police operation in Chhattisgarh.

4-Jul

Former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan charged in Adarsh

7-Jul

Time magazine dubs Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh as 'underachiever'.

12-Jul


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Actor and former wrestler Dara Singh passed away.

12-Jul

Jagadish Shettar sworn in as new Karnataka Chief Minister after Yeddyurappa is asked to step down

18-Jul

Actor Rajesh Khanna passed away

20-Jul

Violent break outs in Kokrajhar district and adjoining areas of Assam

22-Jul

Pranab Mukherjee elected as 13th President of India

30-Jul

Gagan Narang wins bronze in shooting at London Olympics

4-AugVijay Kumar wins silver in shooting at London Olympics

4-Aug

Saina Nehwal wins bronze in badminton at London Olympics

8-Aug

Mass exodus of North-Eastern people from Bangalore. Rumours blamed

8-Aug

Mary Kom wins bronze in womens boxing at London Olympics

10-Aug

Hamid Ansari re-elected as vice-president

11-Aug

Violence in Azad Maidan in Mumbai. The mob was protesting Assam riots

11-Aug

Yogeshwar Dutt wins bronze in wrestling at London Olympics

12-Aug

Sushil Kumar wins silver in Wrestling at London Olympics

12-Aug

London Olympics end. India won highest number of medals than any other Olympics, 6 medels, 2

silver and 4 bronze.

14-Aug

Union Minister for Science and Technology and Ex Chief Minister Of Maharashtra Vilasrao Deshmukh

Passed Away.


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17-Aug

Bulk SMS & MMS banned in India to prevent rumours against North Eastern people.

3-Sep

MekongGanga sixth Cooperation meeting held in New Delhi

19-Sep

Agni-IV successfully test fired

19-Sep

he Supreme Court of India refused to review petitions challenging constitutional validity of Right to

Education from Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009

23-Sep

Deepika Kumari won Silver at Recurve World Cup in Tokyo

27-SepAssam Govt. ordered CBI probe into Rhino poaching

27-Sep

Delhi Transport Corporation started Ladies Special Buses with women conductors

27-Sep

Election commission prohibits use of animals in election campaigns

28-Sep

Minister of Water Resources released an atlas Aquifer System of India

28-Sep

Chief Justice of India Sarosh Homi Kapadia, retired

28-Sep

GSAT-10 successfully launched

29-Sep

Justice Altamas Kabirsworn-in as the new chief justice of India by President Pranab Mukherjee

30-Sep

Punjab Government started door-to-door cancer detection campaign

21-Oct

Filmmaker Yash Chopra passed away. His last movie Jab Tak hai Jaan released in November.

25-Oct

Noted satirist and comedian Jaspal Bhatti died in an accident

29-Oct


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PAnkaj Advani won seventh World Billiards Championship title

30-Oct

RBI left interest rates unchanged but cut the cash reserve ratio for banks by a quarter percent

14-Nov

Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 came into force

17-Nov

Founder and chief of the Shiv Sena, Bal Thackeray passed away

20-Nov

8th meeting of the India-UK Joint Working Group (JWG) on Counter Terrorism held in New Delhi

21-Nov

Ajmal Kasab hanged for 2008 Mumbai Attacks.

30-NovIK Gujral, Former Prime Minister of India passed away.

12-Dec

Agni-I successfully test fired

13-Dec

Retail inflation stood at 9.90 percent in November 2012

20-Dec

Narendra Modi (Chief Minister of Gujarat) wins third consecutive assembly election

26-Dec

Union Government exempted Service Tax for Janashree and Aam Aadmi Bima Yojana

27-Dec

According to Planning Commission of India, Bihars growth rate was highest amongst all other states

in Indiabetween 2006 and 2010. It grew at 10.9 per cent

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