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List of events
Events in the year
2009 in the Republic of India
.
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Events
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- National income -
?
63,664,065 million
- 1 January ?
National Investigation Agency (NIA) Bill
and the
Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment (UAPA) Bill
, the new anti-terror regime came into force with President
Pratibha Patil
giving her assent.
(The Hindu)
- 1 January ?
2009 Guwahati bombings
: Five persons, including a boy and a woman, were killed and about 50 injured in serial bomb blasts in
Guwahati
,
Assam
.
[1]
- 1 January ?
Indian Government
decides to place officers in the rank of
lieutenant colonel
and their equivalents in the other two services on a higher pay band and constitute a separate pay commission in a move to redress the grievances of
Indian Armed Forces
personnel over anomalies in
pay structures
.
(The Hindu)
- 2 January ?
Indian Government
in tandem with the
Reserve Bank of India
(RBI) announces the much-awaited second
Stimulus Package
aimed at reversing the
economic slowdown
.
(The Hindu)
- 2 January ?
Kapil Dev
,
Sunil Gavaskar
and
Bishan Singh Bedi
figure among the 55 players in the ICC's inaugural Hall of Fame list.
(The Hindu)
- 4 January ? All-India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC) decided to go ahead with its indefinite strike from midnight of 5 January.
(The Hindu)
- 4 January ? The
Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) formally dissociates itself from the
United Progressive Alliance
(UPA).
(The Hindu)
- 5 January ?
Indian Government
summons Pakistan High Commissioner Shahid Malik to hand over evidence about Pakistan's involvement in the
Mumbai terror attacks
.
(The Hindu)
- 7 January ?
Satyam Scandal
: In a letter to the Satyam board and the market regulator,
SEBI
,
Ramalinga Raju
, the founder and CEO of
Satyam Computer Services
, confessed that he has been creating fake invoices and that the company cash was all fictitious. The
BSE
crashed 749 points, wiping out about $23bn of investors wealth.
(The Times of India)
- 13 February ?
2009 Orissa train derailment
: A
passenger train
derails in
Bhubaneswar
,
Orissa
, killing at least 15 people and injuring 150 others.
[2]
- 23 February ? India approves a
£
1.7-billion
plan
to launch its first
astronauts
into
outer space
by 2015.
[3]
- 25 February ? A bus crashes in Indian-
administered
Kashmir
, killing 35 people and injuring 15.
[4]
- 25 February ? Former Indian
Communications Minister
Sukh Ram
is jailed for three years for
corruption
.
[5]
- 24 March ? Sixteen
militants
and eight Indian
Army
soldiers are
killed
in
Jammu and Kashmir
's
Kupwara District
.
[6]
- 1 April ? No additional charges on withdrawing money from an ATM of a different bank.
[7]
- April?May ?
General Elections
held.
- 16 April ? The
Naxalite movement
kills
17 people as India's
general election
begins.
[8]
- 20 April ? India's
Space Research Organization
launches its
RISAT-2
reconnaissance satellite
.
[9]
- 19 May ?
Manmohan Singh
of the
National Congress
is
re-elected
as
Prime Minister
of India.
[10]
- 21 May ? The
Communist Party
kills
16
police officers
near
Nagpur
,
Maharashtra
.
[11]
- 25 May ?
Cyclone Aila
ravages the east coast killing at least 149
[12]
[13]
[14]
and hundreds others were left homeless as torrential rains led to flooding.
- 3 June ? Indian
Member of Parliament
Meira Kumar
becomes the first female
Speaker
of the
House of the People
.
- 4 June ? Two hundred thousand people attend the funeral of
Dera Sach Khand
leader
Sant Ramanand Dass
in
Jalandhar
,
Punjab
, India.
[15]
[16]
- 17 June ? Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets Pakistani President
Asif Ali Zardari
.
[17]
- 20 June ? Indian troops enter
Lalgarh
, a
Maoist
stronghold in
West Bengal
, claiming a partial victory.
- 2 July ? A
148-year-old colonial law
banning
homosexual intercourse in India
is overturned by the
High Court
in New Delhi.
[18]
[19]
- 3 July ? Three people die and over a dozen are injured in riots after a dead pig is thrown into an under-construction
mosque
in
Mysore
, India.
[20]
- 14 September ?
Chandrayaan-1
, India's first uncrewed
lunar probe
, discovers large amounts of water on the
Moon
.
[35]
[36]
- 30 September ?
2009 Thekkady boat disaster
: the double-decker passenger boat
Jalakanyaka
capsized in Lake Thekkady, killing a total of 45 passengers.
- 17 October ? 32 people are killed in a fire at a fireworks warehouse in southern India, during the
Diwali
celebrations.
[37]
[38]
- 19 October ?
VA Shiva Ayyadurai
publishes report alleging
CSIR corruption
.
[39]
[40]
[41]
- 30 October ?
Indian Oil Fire in Jaipur
: A large fire at an
oil depot
on the outskirts of
Jaipur
,
Rajasthan
, leaving six people dead and around 135 injured.
[42]
- 6 November ? At least 34 people are killed and 29 are injured when a bus falls into a gorge in
Himachal Pradesh
.
[43]
- 22 November ? At least seven people are killed and more than 55 injured in a bombing in
Assam
, northeastern India.
[44]
- 24 November ? Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh
had the first official state visit to the White House during the administration of U.S. President
Barack Obama
. Several discussions took place during the meeting, including on trade and nuclear power.
- 10 December ? India announces it is to create a new
state
,
Telangana
, out of
Andhra Pradesh
.
[45]
- 13 December ? India successfully test fires its nuclear-capable
"Dhanush" missile
off the
Orissa
coast.
[46]
Deaths
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- 15 January ?
Tapan Sinha
, 84, film director (born 1924)
- 27 January ?
R. Venkataraman
, 98, the 8th
President of India
(born 1910)
- 31 January ?
Nagesh
, actor (born 1933)
[47]
- 9 April ?
Shakti Samanta
, 83, film director and producer (born 1926)
- 27 April ?
Feroz Khan
, 69, film actor and producer (born 1939)
- 17 May ?
Prakash Mehra
, 69, film director and producer (born 1939)
- 31 May ?
Kamala Das
, 75, writer and poet (born 1934)
- 8 June ?
Habib Tanvir
, 85, dramatist and actor (born 1923)
- 28 June ?
A. K. Lohithadas
, 54, filmmaker in Malayalam cinema (born 1955)
- 16 July ?
D. K. Pattammal
, 90,
Carnatic musician
, one of the "female trinity of Carnatic Music" (born 1919)
- 21 July ?
Gangubai Hangal
, 96,
Hindustani classical
singer (born 1913)
- 28 July ?
Leela Naidu
, 69, film actress (born 1940)
- 29 July ?
- 9 August ?
- Gulshan Bawra
, 72, songwriter (born 1937)
- Murali
, 55, film and theatre actor, author (born 1954)
- 2 September ?
Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy
, 60, 14th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (born 1949)
- 25 October ?
Adoor Bhavani
, 82, film actress (born 1927)
- 10 November ?
Simple Kapadia
, 51, film costume designer and actress (born 1958)
- 7 December ?
Bina Rai
, 73, film actress (born 1936)
- 29 December ?
C. Aswath
, 72, Kannada music director and singer (born 1938)
- 30 December ?
Vishnuvardhan
, 59, Kannada film actor and singer (born 1950)
See also
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