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Events in the year 2010 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

Photo Post Name
President Pratibha Patil
Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari
Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh
Chief Justice K. G. Balakrishnan (till 12 May)
S. H. Kapadia (starting 12 May)

Governors

Photo Post Name
Arunachal Pradesh
Assam
Bihar
Chhattisgarh
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Telangana
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
West Bengal

Events

January

  • 2 January – First three Uttar Pradesh rail accidents: Three train accidents occur in Uttar Pradesh amid thick fog. Ten people died in the accidents and 45 others were injured.
  • 9 January – 2009 attacks on Indian students in Australia: An Indian man is set on fire in Melbourne, Australia, in the latest in a series of attacks on Indian nationals in the country.[1][2][3]
  • 16 January – Fourth Uttar Pradesh rail accident: two express trains collide in thick fog in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Three people died in the accident and around a dozen were injured.
  • 17 January – Fifth Uttar Pradesh rail accidents: A car hit by a train at an unmanned crossing in Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh. Two of the six people in the car died and four got injured.
  • 22 January – Sixth Uttar Pradesh rail accidents: A goods train derailed near Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh on Friday, disrupting rail traffic in the region. No one was injured in the accident.
  • 25 January – Environment ministers from the G4 bloc (IBSA Dialogue Forum & China) meet in New Delhi, India, to agree a common position ahead of future climate change talks.
  • 30 January – 12 people drown and at least 20 other went missing after a boat accident in West Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh in India.[4][5]

February

  • 5 February – The last native of India's Andaman Islands fluent in the Aka-Bo language dies, rendering the language extinct.
  • 8 February – At least 17 Indian soldiers are killed in an avalanche in Kashmir.[6][7]
  • 13 February – 2010 Pune bombing: a bomb exploded at the German Bakery in the city of Pune in western India, killing 17 people and injuring at least 60 others. Two little known groups calling themselves the Lashkar-e-Taiba Al Alami and the Mujahideen Islami Muslim Front claimed they were behind the bomb attack. However, according to government agencies, the attack could have been part of a project by Lashkar-e-Taiba to use the Indian Mujahideen, called the 'Karachi project'. David Coleman Headley a Pakistani-American terror suspect has been accused of involvement in the project.[8]
  • 15 February – Silda camp attack: A Naxalite attack on an army camp in West Bengal kills 24 Indian soldiers, with many more reported missing.[9]
  • 17 February – 2010 Jalaun district bus crash: At least 22 people are killed in a bus crash in Northern India.[10]

March

April

May

Cyclone Laila over India, 19 May 2010

June

  • 2 June – 2010 Indian heatwave: A heat wave strikes India and South Asia, reaching 53°C (127°F) 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 catastrophe 25 years ago in 1984.[48]
  • 17 June – Heavy rains claim 46 lives in Maharashtra.[49]
  • 23 June – 1 person is killed when a crane crashes at Chennai International Airport, Chennai.[50]
  • 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.[51]
  • 26 June – Four people are killed and five wounded in violence in Indian-administered Kashmir's Sopore area.[52]
  • 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.
  • 3 October – Violet Line of the Delhi Metro system opened.
  • 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.[80]
  • 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 Jarawas (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 Jarawas, 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.[81]
  • 25 October – More than 700 species of ancient insects are discovered preserved in amber in an ancient rainforest in India.[82]
  • 30 October – At least 16 people drown and 70 are missing after an overcrowded ferry sinks in a river in West Bengal, eastern India.[83]

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.[87]
  • 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 Budaun in Uttar Pradesh state, in northern India.[88]
  • Late December – Onion price rise in Indian markets leads to political tensions.[89]

Predicted and scheduled events

Sports

Hockey

Cricket

Football

Multi Sports Games

Others

  • 3–12 April: 2010 Kabaddi World Cup in Punjab won by India by defeating Pakistan on 12 April 2010.

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

Major public holidays

See also

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