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List of events
This is a list of events in
India in the year 2012.
Incumbents
Governors
Events
National income - ₹ 99,440,131 million
January - March
3 January:
President inaugurates new
SHAR Mission Control Centre.
[1]
9 January:
10th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas kicks off in
Jaipur .
[2] Chief guest –
Kamla Persad-Bissessar , Prime Minister of
Trinidad and Tobago .
11 January: 42% of Indian children are malnourished – Hunger and Malnutrition (Hungama) report.
13 January: 5 million students perform Surya namaskar in Madhya Pradesh.
19 January:
Delhi High Court grants bail for
Suresh Kalmadi in
Commonwealth Games Scam .
26 January: Nation displays military might on 63rd
Republic Day ; Thailand Prime Minister
Yingluck Shinawatra , chief guest of India's 63rd Republic Day celebrations.
2 February:
Supreme Court cancels all 122 licences given by
A Raja in
2G spectrum case .
[3]
5 February: Special CBI court dismisses
Subramanian Swamy 's petition to prosecute Home Minister
P.Chidambaram in
2G spectrum case .
[4]
8 February: Three
Bharatiya Janata Party ministers caught watching objectionable video clip in
Karnataka Assembly, Resign.
[5]
11 February: Army Chief
V.K. Singh withdraws petition from
Supreme Court in age-controversy.;
[6] Advanced Interceptor missile is successfully test-fired.
[7]
14 February:
Blast at an
Israeli embassy car in
Delhi .
[8]
16 February: Two fishermen, mistaken for pirates, shot dead off
Kerala coast by Italian
ship .
[9]
20 February: Six killed in stampede at Bhavnath temple in
Junagadh district,
Gujarat .
[10]
3 March: State Assembly election process comes to an end in
Uttar Pradesh and
Goa .
[11]
6 March: Election results for five state assemblies are announced;
Samajwadi Party (
Uttar Pradesh ),
Bhartiya Janata Party (
Goa ),
Indian National Congress (
Manipur &
Uttarakhand ),
Shiromani Akali Dal -BJP combine (
Punjab ) emerge winners.
[12]
14 March:
Irom Sharmila fast against
AFSPA goes on for 11 years. Indian Rail Budget 2012–13 presented by Rail Minister
Dinesh Trivedi .
16 March: Union Budget for 2012–13 is presented by Finance Minister
Pranab Mukherjee .
[13]
18 March: Dinesh Trivedi steps down as Railways Minister after pressure from
TMC .
[14]
21 March:
Soumitra Chatterjee selected for
Dadasaheb Phalke award for 2011.
22 March: India votes against
Sri Lanka on the resolution to 'credibly investigate' allegations of violations during the war against
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in 2009 in the
United Nations Human Rights Council .
[15]
29 March: India hosts
4th BRICS summit at New Delhi. Heads of state of Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa are hosted by India.
[16]
April - June
July - September
October - December
Cinema
Bengali
Bollywood
Malayalam
Marathi
Ollywood
Sandwood
Tamil
Tollywood
Sports
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
October
November
December
Sachin Tendulkar announced his retirement from
ODIs on 23 December. He played 463 ODIs in all, scoring 18,426 runs, which includes 49 centuries and 96 half centuries.
[79]
Deaths
January – August
Dara Singh
3 February –
Raj Kanwar , 50,
Bollywood film director, producer
[82] (born 1961)
7 March –
Ravi , 86, music director in Hindi and Malayalam films (born 1926)
9 March –
Joy Mukherjee , 73, actor and director (born 1939)
15 March –
Falak , 2, baby murder victim (born 2010)
28 March –
T. Damodaran , 77, screenwriter in Malayalam cinema (born c. 1935)
1 April –
N. K. P. Salve , 91, politician, parliamentarian, and a cricket administrator (born 1921)
23 April –
Navodaya Appachan , 86, film producer, director, and entrepreneur (born 1924)
24 April –
Sheena Bora , 25, daughter of media executive
Indrani Mukerjea (born 1987)
14 May –
Taruni Sachdev , 14, actress in films and television advertisements
[83] (born 1998)
12 July –
Dara Singh , 83, professional wrestler, actor, director, and politician
[84] (born 1928)
Rajesh Khanna
September – December
Inder kumar Gujral
24 September –
Thilakan , 77, Malayalam film and stage actor
[88] (born 1935)
8 October –
Varsha Bhosle , 56, journalist, singer
[89] (born 1956)
21 October –
Yash Chopra , 80, Hindi film producer, director, script writer
[90] (born 1932)
22 October –
Shubha Phutela , 21, model and Tamil film actress
[91] (born 1991)
23 October –
Sunil Gangopadhyay , 78, poet, historian, and novelist
[92] (born 1934)
Jaspal Bhatti 25 October –
Jaspal Bhatti , 57, satirist, television and film director, producer, actor
[93] (born 1955)
28 October –
Savita Halappanavar , 31, nurse in Ireland who suffered a miscarriage at University Hospital Galway
[94] (born 1981)
15 November –
K. C. Pant , 81, former cabinet minister in the Government of India
[95] (born 1931)
17 November –
Bal Thackeray , 86, politician, founder of Shiv Sena
[96] (born 1926)
30 November –
I. K. Gujral , 92, 12th Prime Minister of India
[97] (born 1919)
11 December –
B. B. Nimbalkar , 92, first-class cricketer
[98] (born 1919)
11 December –
Ravi Shankar , 92, sitarist, musician, composer
[99] (born 1920)
23 December –
Anand Abhyankar , 49, Marathi theatre television and film actor, victim of a car accident on Mumbai Pune express highway (born 1963)
29 December – unnamed victim of
2012 Delhi gang rape case , female physiotherapy intern
[100]
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