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List of events
Events in the year 2009 in the Republic of India .
Incumbents
Governors
Events
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]
Manmohan Singh with American President
Barack Obama at the
White House , 24 November 2009
Chandrayaan-1 , India's first uncrewed
lunar probe , discovers large amounts of water on the
Moon .
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
R. Venkataraman
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)
Feroz Khan 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)
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