2010 in India
Events in the year 2010 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents
Events
January
February
March
April
May
- 3 May – Ajmal Kasab, the only surviving terrorist involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, is found guilty of murder, conspiracy, and waging war against India.[30][31]
- 6 May – Ajmal Kasab, the only surviving member of a group responsible for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, is sentenced to death.[32]
- 7 May – May 2010 Kashmir skirmishes: 5 insurgents and 2 soldiers die in a gunbattle between Islamic rebels and Indian security forces in Kashmir.
- 7–9 May – India International Light Fair & India International Sign Show in Mumbai.
- 8 May – Naxalite rebels blow up a bullet-proof vehicle of the Central Reserve Police Force in the Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, India, killing seven officers.[33]
- 16 May – Maoist guerrillas kill six villagers in an alleged revenge attack in Chhattisgarh, India.[34][35]
- 17 May – 2010 Dantewada bus bombing: Naxalite insurgents blow up a bus in India filled with police and para-militaries. Fatalities reports range from 31[36] to 44,[37] including several Special Police Officers (SPOs) and civilians.[36][38]
- 19 May – 2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season: Cyclone Laila approaches landfall in southeastern India, having already caused at least ten deaths and prompting the evacuations of 10,000 people in Tamil Nadu.[39]
- 21 May – A court restores the Indian Hockey Federation, two years after it was dissolved by the country's Olympic chiefs over bribery allegations and poor on-field results.[40][41]
- 21 May – Six girls aged between eight and twelve years drown in the Rapti in Balrampur while bathing.[42]
- 22 May – Air India Express Flight 812 overshoots the runway at Mangalore International Airport in India, killing 158 and leaving 8 survivors.[43]
- 23 May – Clashes break out between Indian and Pakistani troops near the border in the disputed Kashmir region.[44]
- 28 May – Gyaneshwari Express train derailment: At least 25 people are killed and 150 injured in India after a Mumbai train with 13 passenger coaches is derailed by an explosion on the tracks and collides with another train as it traveled through the Paschim Medinipur district, a rebel stronghold in eastern India.[45][46]
June
- 2 June – 2010 Indian heatwave: A heatwave strikes India and South Asia, reaching 53C (127F) and killing many hundreds of people.[47]
- 7 June – The Magistrate court in Bhopal, India convicts eight people, one posthumously, for their role in the Bhopal disaster industrial castastrophe 25 years ago in 1984.[48]
- 13 June – A 7.5-magnitude earthquake west of India's Nicobar Islands causes tremors felt along India's eastern seaboard and triggers a tsunami watch, which is later cancelled.[49]
- 17 June – Heavy rains claim 46 lives in Maharashtra, India.[50]
- 23 June – 1 person is killed when a crane crashes at Chennai International Airport, Chennai, India.[51]
- 25 June – 17 people are killed and 25 others injured when an overcrowded bus collided head-on with a speeding truck near Chenaki More, about 30 km from Patna, India.[52]
- 26 June – Four people are killed and five wounded in violence in Indian-administered Kashmir's Sopore area.[53]
- 29 June – 2010 Maoist attack in Narayanpur: At least 26 policemen are killed in a Maoist attack in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh.
July
August
September
October
- 3 October - XIX Commonwealth Games, were held in Delhi, India, from 3 to 14 October 2010.
- 10 October – At least 36 people die after an overloaded boat capsizes on the Ganges River in the Buxar district of India's Bihar state.[81]
- Mid-October, Mrs. Kashmira and Dr. Leo Rebello visit Andaman Islands, flying directly from Bombay to Portblair, on a chartered flight of Yatra travel, and find Jaravas (tar black people) still roaming fully naked hardly 30 km away from the Governor’s Palace. Visit the cellular jail and recommend that the said imposing edifice should be turned into a Heritage-Jail Hotel, and oppose the setting up of an Allopathy Hospital on the campus of the Cellular Jail to medicate the Jaravas, destroying their original genetic pool of over 5000 years old.
- 11 October – 18 people are killed when a bus falls into a river in Bulandshahr district, Uttar Pradesh, India.[82]
- 25 October – More than 700 species of ancient insects are discovered preserved in amber in an ancient rainforest in India.[83]
- 30 October – At least 16 people drown and 70 are missing after an overcrowded ferry sinks in a river in West Bengal, eastern India.[84]
November
December
- 5 December – 20-year-old Nicole Faria from Bangalore, Miss India, wins the Miss Earth 2010 crown in Vinpearl Land, Nha Trang, Vietnam.[88]
- 10 December - Agni-II plus missile test fails in Orissa, India test-fired an upgraded version of the Agni-II plus nuclear-capable intermediate range ballistic missile off the Orissa coast. The test was declared a failure. The latest version of the "Agni" series missile is described as a two-stage, solid propellant rail and road mobile missile.
- 26 December – A collision between a bus and a mini-truck kills 34 people and leaves 30 injured, near the town of Badaun in Uttar Pradesh state, in northern India.[89]
- Late December - Onion price rise in Indian markets leads to political tensions.[90]
Predicted and scheduled events
Sports
Hockey
Cricket
Football
Multi Sports Games
Others
Births
Full date unknown
- Falak, baby murder victim (d. 2012)
Deaths
January - July
- 17 January - Jyoti Basu, 95, former Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1914)
- 2 February
- Salim Ahmed Ghoush (stage name Cochin Haneefa), 58, South Indian film actor and director (b. 1951)
- Naga Vaishnavi, 10, murder victim (b. 2000)
- 10 February - Gireesh Puthenchery, 48, Malayalam lyricist and screenwriter (b. 1961)
- 18 February - Nirmal Pandey, 48, film and television actor (b. 1961)
- 23 April - Sreenath, 53, Malayalam film and television actor (b. 1956)
- 10 May - Mac Mohan, 71, character actor (b. 1938)
- 15 May - Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, 86, 11th Vice President of India (b. 1923)
- 24 May - Tapen Chatterjee, 72, Bengali film actor (b. 1937)
- 14 June - Manohar Malgonkar, 96, author in English (b. 1913)
- 17 June - Anjali Mendes, 64, fashion model (b. 1946)
- 25 June - Viveka Babajee, 37, model and actress (b. 1973)
- 2 July - M.G. Radhakrishnan, 69, Malayalam film music director and Carnatic vocalist (b. 1940)
- 23 July - A. Sreedhara Menon, 84, historian. (b. 1925)
- 27 July - Ravi Baswani, 63, actor (b. 1946)
August - December
- 1 August - K. M. Mathew, 93, newspaper editor (Malayala Manorama). (b. 1917)
- 10 August - Leo Pinto, 96, field hockey player, Olympic gold medalist (1948). (b. 1914)
- 13 August - Janaki Venkataraman, 89, First Lady (1987–1992) (b. 1921)
- 16 August - Narayan Gangaram Surve, 83, poet. (b. 1926)
- 27 August - Ravindra Kelekar, 85, author, poet and activist. (b. 1925)
- 5 September - Homi Sethna, 86, nuclear scientist and chemical engineer. (b. 1924)
- 8 September - Murali, 46, Tamil actor. (b. 1964)
- 9 September - Venu Nagavally, 61, actor, screenwriter, director in Malayalam film (b. 1949)
- 12 September - Swarnalatha, 37, playback singer. (b. 1973)
- 7 October - A. Venkatachalam, 55, politician[91]
- 8 October - S. S. Chandran, 69, comic actor and politician, member of the Rajya Sabha (2001–2007)[92]
- 20 October - Parthasarathy Sharma, 62, Test cricketer (1974–1977)[93]
- 21 October - A. Ayyappan, 61, poet.[94]
- 2 November - Kalim Sharafi, 85, Bengali language singer.[95]
- 3 November - P. Lal, 81, writer.[96]
- 6 November - Siddhartha Shankar Ray, 90, politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (1972–1977), Governor of Punjab (1986–1989)[97]
- 11 November - Pankaj Advani, 45, film director, film editor, screenplay writer, photographer, theatre director, and painter. (b. 1965) [98]
- 17 November - N. Viswanathan, 81, actor[99]
- 28 November - Mahaveer Prasad, 71, politician[100]
- 4 December - Manish Acharya, 43, film director, actor (b. 1967)[101]
- 23 December - K. Karunakaran, 92, politician, former Chief Minister of Kerala. (b. 1918)
Major public holidays
See also
References
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