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List of events
Events in the year 2007 in the Republic of India .
Incumbents
Governors
Events
Prathiba Patil is elected as the first female
President of India
National income - ₹ 48,986,621 million
January–November –
Nandigram violence – Clashes between opposition parties, the governing
Communist Party of India (Marxist) and police in
Nandigram ,
West Bengal . On 14 March, 14 villagers were killed in police firing.
10 January – India
launches four
satellites at a time with their
PSLV -C7 rocket, including the
SRE-1 test article, which will return to Earth in a test for a future Indian
human spaceflight program.
[1]
17 January – Protests occur in India and the United Kingdom against the British series of
Celebrity Big Brother after
Jade Goody ,
Danielle Lloyd and
Jo O'Meara were alleged to have been racially abusive towards
Bollywood star
Shilpa Shetty .
22 January –
Indian spacecraft
SRE 1 successfully completes a twelve-day
orbital test flight, making India one of the few nations to
return a craft from orbit .
[2]
24 January – India and
Russia agree to jointly develop
fifth-generation stealth fighter jets .
[3]
18 February –
2007 Samjhauta Express bombings : Hindutva militants from the
Abhinav Bharat organization set off a bomb on the
Samjhauta Express , a twice-weekly train service connecting
Delhi , India, and
Lahore , Pakistan. Bombs were set off in two carriages, both filled with passengers, just after the train passed Diwana station near the Indian city of
Panipat , 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of
New Delhi . 68 people were killed in the ensuing fire and dozens more were injured.
[4]
20 February – A river boat carrying children on a school trip on the
Periyar River in southern India capsizes, killing at least 18 students and four teachers.
[5]
4 March –
Sunil Kumar Mahato , an Indian member of
parliament from the
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha , is killed by suspected
Maoist rebels while he was attending a local
football match in
Jharkhand organised to mark the Hindu festival of
Holi .
[6]
15 March –
Naxalite rebels attack a
police outpost in the
Bijapur district of
Chhattisgarh , India, killing at least 49 officers and looting their weapons.
[7]
16 April – At least 11 people die in
southern India as a passenger
train runs into a
minibus carrying local officials near the village of
Thirumatpur in
Tamil Nadu .
[8]
18 May –
18 May 2007 Hyderabad Bombing : 9 people are killed in a bomb blast at the
Mecca Masjid
mosque in the Indian city of
Hyderabad, India .
[9]
19 July –
Pratibha Patil is elected as the first female
President of India .
25 August –
Forty-four people are dead after two bombs explode in
Hyderabad .
August – India and the United States release the text of 123 agreement.
[10] This has been very controversial in the Indian political environment with both Left and NDA opposing the UPA over the issue.
24 September –
India won the ICC t20 world cup 2007 by beating their rivals
Pakistan in the final
11 November – Miss India-Earth
Pooja Chitgopekar won in
Miss Earth 2007 beauty pageant as Miss Earth-Air (1st-runner up) held in
Manila, Philippines .
21 November –
Calcutta – Protests over Bangladeshi feminist writer Taslima Nasreen turn into deadly riots; troops are deployed.
[11]
22 December –
Narendra Modi led government in
Gujarat completes its term.
29 December - Sunil Joshi, a
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh functionary shot dead in
Madhya Pradesh allegedly by proponents of
Saffron terror .
[12]
Deaths
Kamleshwar
27 January –
Kamleshwar , writer, screenwriter, critic and essayist (b. 1932).
28 January –
O. P. Nayyar , film music director and composer (b. 1926).
2 February –
Vijay Arora , actor (b. 1946).
4 March –
Sunil Kumar Mahato , politician, assassinated (b. 1966).
1 April –
Laurie Baker , English-born architect (b. 1917)
5 April –
Leela Majumdar , writer (b. 1908).
5 April –
Poornachandra Tejaswi , writer and novelist (b. 1938).
13 April –
Dhulipala Seetharama Sastry , actor (b. 1921).
27 May –
Ibrahim Saeed , journalist, editor and scholar (b. 1945).
13 June –
Ramchandra Gandhi , philosopher, grandson of
Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1937).
2 July –
Dilip Sardesai , cricketer (b. 1940).
8 July –
Chandra Shekhar , politician, 11th
Prime Minister of India (b. 1927).
21 August –
Qurratulain Hyder , novelist and short story writer, academic and journalist (b. 1926).
10 October –
S. R. Bommai , politician and
Chief Minister of Karnataka (b. 1924).
11 October –
Sri Chinmoy , spiritual teacher and philosopher (b. 1931).
27 October –
Satyen Kappu , actor (b. 1931).
21 December –
Teji Bachchan , wife of poet
Harivansh Rai Bachchan and mother of actor,
Amitabh Bachchan .
25 December –
G. P. Sippy , film producer and director (b. 1914).
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