2012 in India

This is a list of events in India in the year 2012.

2012
in
India

Millennia:
Centuries:
  • 19th
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1990s
  • 2000s
  • 2010s
  • 2020s
See also:List of years in India
Timeline of Indian history

Incumbents

Photo Post Name
President Pratibha Patil (till 25 July)
Pranab Mukherjee (from 25 July)
Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari
Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh
Chief Justice S. H. Kapadia (till 28 September)
Altamas Kabir (starting 28 September)

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

February

March

April

  • 8 April: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari visits India on a personal visit to Ajmer Sharif.[17]
  • 11 April: A pair of great earthquakes occur in the Wharton Basin west of Sumatra in Indonesia. The maximum Mercalli intensity of this strike-slip doublet earthquake was VII (Very strong). Ten were killed, twelve were injured, and a non-destructive tsunami was observed on the island of Nias.
  • 12 April: 18 get life term for Ode village massacre during 2002 Gujarat riots.[18]
  • 17 April: RBI cuts repo rate by 50 basis points for the first time in three years.[19]
  • 18 April: Major fire in the signalling system at Kurla brings Central line and Harbour line of Mumbai Suburban Railway to a standstill and two commuters lose their lives after falling off an overcrowded local train.[20] The loss was expected to be 170 million (US$2.4 million) to the Central Railway.[21]
  • 19 April: India successfully test fires 5000 km range Agni-V ICBM.[22]
  • 21 April: Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon kidnapped by Maoists in Chhattisgarh.[23]
  • 24 April: Two NRI kids return to Kolkata after long legal struggle with CWS Norway.[24]
  • 26 April: Sachin Tendulkar, Rekha and Anu Aga nominated to Rajya Sabha by the President of India.[25] Abducted BJD MLA Jhina Hikaka released by maoists after 33 days of captivity.[26]

May

June

July

August

  • 8 August: Incident of violence against North-Eastern people in Pune as repercussion of Assam Violence following which exodus of thousands of North-Eastern people from Bangalore due to a rumour circulated among them through SMS & MMS that they would be attacked after Eid.
  • 10 August: Hamid Ansari again elected as consecutively second vice-president of India after Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.
  • 11 August: Violence in Azad Maidan in Mumbai.
  • 12 August: London Olympics, This was India's most successful Olympics in terms of total medal tally, having won a total of 6 medals (0 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze).
  • 14 August: Union Minister for Science And Technology and Ex Chief Minister Of Maharashtra Vilasrao Deshmukh passes away.
  • 17 August: Bulk SMS & MMS banned in India for 15 days to prevent a rumour of ensuing violence against NE people by Muslim fundamentalists.

September

  • 19 September: CBI makes first arrests in Assam Violence cases.[52] Mohammed Hashem Ali, Mohammed Adom Ali Sheikh, Mohammed Hashim Ali Rehman, Mohammed Qurban Ali Sheikh, Mohammed Imran Hussain were arrested after detailed questioning by agency sleuths.

October

November

  • 21 November: Ajmal Kasab hanged on account of the 2008 Mumbai Attacks.

December

  • 16 December: A female physiotherapy student was beaten and gang raped in Delhi, when the victim and a male companion boarded a bus in South Delhi in the evening, after watching a movie. The incident created huge outrage across the country and forced the Government of India to react and work on safety for women. Public protests took place in Delhi, where thousands of protesters clashed with police, and other force units.
  • 20 December: Narendra Modi (Chief Minister of Gujarat) wins third consecutive assembly election. Virbahdra Singh wins election in Himachal Pradesh.[53]

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.[76]

Deaths

January – August

September – December

See also

References

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