28 January – BJP president
Venkaiah Naidu elected for three-year term.
28 January – The
Border Security Force busts a hideout of pro-Pakistan
Hizbul Mujahideen in Pulwama District of south
Kashmir and recovers a "huge quantity" of ammunition and explosives. Acting on a tip-off, the security personnel raided the hideout at Remu village in the early hours and recovered around 12,000 rounds of AK ammunition, 2.5 kg
RDX and three
grenades according to a
Border Security Force spokesman.
28 January – Commerce minister
Arun Jaitley announced the Cabinet decision to free gold and silver imports from all restrictions.
28 January – The
Lucknow bench of the
Allahabad High Court fixed 23 February for further hearing of the revision petition filed against deputy prime minister L. K. Advani's discharge in the
Babri Masjid demolition case by a special
CBI court at Rae Bareli.
18 February - Karnataka khadi gramodyoga samyukta sangha (kkgss) becomes the official flag maker of India.
4 March – The
Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) refused to clear a project of
Pepsi to expand their plant to triple production in
Chembur,
Mumbai on the grounds that the expansion will have a polluting effect on the environment.
6 April – The biggest ever
Indo -French naval exercise
Varuna 2004 gets underway off the coast of
Goa.
20 April – First phase of polling for
fourteenthLok Sabha elections covering 141 constituencies.
26 April – Second phase of polling for
fourteenthLok Sabha elections covering 137 constituencies.
5 May – Third phase of polling for
fourteenthLok Sabha elections covering 83 constituencies.
22 June -
Maharashtra SSC results were announced on June 22 at 3 pm. Shri Saraswati Bhuvan High School, Chatrapati Sambhajinagar (previously known as Aurangabad) was one of the top performing school in Maharashtra.
July - December
14 July –
Lalu Prasad Yadav, amidst walkouts by the opposition in both houses orders a high-level departmental inquiry into the
Godhra tragedy in 2002.
15 July –
Maninder Pal Singh Kohli, prime accused in the high-profile rape and murder of British teenager Hannah Foster is arrested by
West Bengal police in Darjeeling District while trying to flee to
Nepal.
28 July – Maninder Pal Singh Kohli admits to having raped and murdered British teenager Hannah Foster in an interview to a private television channel.
1 August – The
senior citizen savings scheme offering a "high" nine percent taxable return is expected to be launched.
31 August – Union minister
Ghulam Nabi Azad's brother Ghulam Abbas Azad is attacked by terrorists, seriously injuring his security guard in Doda District of
Jammu and Kashmir.
1 September – The
Bombay High Court passes interim orders restraining
television channels from broadcasting "any adult TV programme and film without an appropriate certificate from the Indian
censor board."
18 October – Bandit
Veerappan Killed by Tamil Nadu and Karnataka Special Task Force members at a checkpost, when the bandit was travelling in an ambulance driven by disguised policeman as driver.
21 December –
Zahira Sheikh, key witness in
Best Bakery case is declared
hostile by the prosecution after she went back on her police statement during the retrial.