The United Nations has declared 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity & International Year of Youth.
Below is a short summary of good & bad events that took place from Friday to Friday.
JANUARY
January 10 - Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visited India with a desire to launch a new phase in the duo’s bilateral relations.
January 24 - South Korea President Lee Myung Bak visited India to discuss about doubling of the bilateral trade.
January 11 - India and China decided to start joint military exercise from 2011.
January 19 - Najib Razak, Malaysia Prime Minister visited India.
January 11 - Govt launched Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission
January 17 - M.K. Narayanan named Governor of West Bengal.
January 17 – Shivraj Patil named Governor of Punjab.
January 17 – Mohsini Kidwai named Governor of Jharkhand
January 17 – Shekhar Dutt named Governor of Chattisgarh.
January 19 – E.S.L. Narasimhan named Governor of Andhra Pradesh.
January 31 – Brahmananda Panda, MP from BJD party expired.
January 29 - Ram Niwas Mirdha, MLA, MP & Speaker died of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
January 26 - Gummadi Venkateswara Rao, popular Telugu actor died of multiple organ failure.
January 22 - Janeshwar Mishra, politician from Samajwadi Party, died of cardiac arrest.
January 21 - Chindodi Leela, actress, politician & writer from Karnataka, died of heart attack.
January 18 - K. S. Ashwath, veteran Kannada film actor, died of multiple organ failure.
January 17 - Jyoti Basu, politician died due to complications from pneumonia.
January 10 - Sailadhar Baruah, film producer from Assam died of complications of diabetes.
January 9 – Vimcy, sports writer from Kerala, died.
January 3 - Moti Nandi, Bengali writer, died.
January 2 - Rajendra Keshavlal Shah, Gujarathi poet, died.
January 1 – Billy Arjan Singh, a hunter turned conservationist, died.
FEBRUARY
February 11 - India signed a Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement with the UK.
February 17 - India and Denmark signed a social security pact to will relieve their workers from double taxation and provide for cooperation in areas of labour market expansion and orderly migration.
February 27 - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited Saudi Arabia.
February 27 - Nanaji Deshmukh, social activist & politician from Maharashtra died.
February 20 - Basavaraju Venkata Padmanabha Rao, popular Telugu actor & producer died of heart attack.
February 18 – Amlan Datta, economist & teacher from West Bengal died.
February 18 – Nirmal Pandey, actor died of heart attack.
February 10 – Gireesh Puthenchery, Malayalam lyricist & screenwriter died of brain haemorrhage.
February 10 – K.N. Raj, Malayalam economist, died.
February 5 – Sujit Kumar, Hindi film star & producer, died of cancer.
February 2 – Cochin Haneefa, veteran Malayalam actor, died of multiple organ failure.
February 2 – Tahir Hussain, producer, director & writer of Bollywood movies, died of cardiac arrest.
February 1 – Subir Raha, former director of Indian Oil Corporation, died of lung cancer.
MARCH
March 8 - Govt launched National Mission for Empowerment of Women aimed at inter-sectoral convergence of all pro- women programmes.
March 27 - Earth Hour 2010 was celebrated.
March 12 - Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of Russia visited India.
March 15 - Govt approved Foreign Educational Institution (Regulation of Entry & Operation) Bill 2010. It provides foreign universities to set up campuses in India.
March 19 - Govt amends Anti Hijacking Act 1982. It now provides for death sentence to the hijackers.
March 23 – Kanu Sanyal, main leader of Naxalbari, committed suicide.
March 14 – Vinda Karandikar, Marathi poet & writer died after short illness.
March 2 – Syed Ali, hockey gold medalist, died.
APRIL
April 6 – Naxals killed about 75 CRPF personnel at Chintalnar-Tarmetla village of Chattisgarh.
April 29 - Indian navy commissioned India’s first indigenously built stealth warship ‘ INS Shivalik’.
April 1 – Govt. launches 2011 census which is India’s 15th census.
April 26 – Varkala Radhakrishnan, politician died of road accident.
April 26 – Prabha Rau, politician & former Governor of Rajasthan, died of heart attack.
April 23 – Srinath, Malayalam actor, committed suicide.
April 20 – M.K. Kamalam, Malayalam actress, died.
April 16 – C.P. Rele, Hindustani classical musician, died.
April 13 – Santhosh Jogi, Malayalam actor, committed suicide by hanging.
April 8 – Ramachandra Siras, linguist & author, died.
MAY
May 18 - Naxalites killed 47 people in a landmine blast between Dantewada and Sukma in Chattisgarh.
May 17 - Test fire of nuclear capable Agni-II missile was successfully carried out from Wheeler Island off the coast of Orissa.
May 24 – Virendra Bhatia, politician from Samajwadi party, died after short illness.
May 24 – Tapan Chatterjee, Bengali actor, died of cardiac arrest.
May 22 – Veturi Sundaram Murthy, veteran Telugu poet & lyricist, died of heart attack.
May 22 - Air India Express Flight 812 overshoots the runway at Mangalore International Airport, killing 158 and leaving 8 survivors.
May 15 - Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, politician from BJP party & former Vice president died of respiratory infection.
May 10 - Mohan Makijany, Hindi film actor, died of lung cancer.
JUNE
June 1 – President’s rule imposed in Jharkhand.
June 16 - Amar Singh launches a new party ‘Akhil Bhartiya Lok Manch’.
June 2 - South African president Jacob Zuma visited India.
June 8 - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa visited India to discuss the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA).
June 11 - Broadband wireless access (BWA) spectrum auction India ends.
June 28 - India signed Civil Nuclear agreement with Canada.
June 29 - India become a full fledged member of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
June 29 – Chandgi Ram, Olympic wrestler, died of cardiac arrest.
June 28 – Chandrakant Kamat, Hindustani classical tabla player, died of heart attack.
June 26 – Adoor Pankajam, Malayalam actress, died.
June 26 – D. Sudarsanam, politician & MLA from Tamil Nadu, died of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
June 24 – Digvijay Singh, Bihari politician died of brain haemorrhage.
June 20 – Gundibail Sunderam, Cricketer, died after a short illness.
June 18 – Bidya Debbarma, communist politician from Tripura, died.
June 16 – P.G. Viswambharan, Malayalam movie director, died after long illness.
June 14 – Manohar Malgonkar, English author from Karnataka, died.
June 2 – Kovilan, Malayalee novelist, died of respiratory disease.
JULY
July 27 – Ravi Baswani, actor, died of heart attack.
July 20 – Milon K. Bannerji, former Attorney General of India, died after long illness.
July 20 – Amit Jethwa, environmentalist was shot dead.
July 19 – Kottakkal Sivaraman, Kathakali artist, died.
July 13 – Manohari Singh, Saxophonist, died of heart attack.
July 2 – M. G. Radhakrishnan, Malayalm music director, died of liver disease.
AUGUST
August 30 – Rajya Sabha passed the Nuclear Liability Bill.
August 31 – Supreme Court reopened Bhopal gas tragedy case.
August 6 - Research in Motion (RIM), the maker of Blackberry finally surrendered to Indian security agencies’ demand for access to their server.
August 7 – Leh flash floods in Ladakh, killing at least 115 people.
August 28 – Music maestro A.R. Rahman launched CWG anthem.
August 9 – Marine disaster in Mumbai harbour.
August 18 – IBM declared as second largest private sector employer.
August 27 – Ravindra Kelekar, Marathi & Hindi novelist, died after short illness.
August 18 – Subair, Malayalam actor, died of heart attack
August 16 – Narayan Gangaram Surve, Marathi poet, died after short illness.
August 13 - Janaki Venkataraman, wife to former President R. Venkataraman, died after short illness.
August 10 – Leo Pinto, Olympic hockey gold medalist, died.
August 1 – K.M. Mathew, former Editor in Chief of Malayala Manorama, died.
SEPTEMBER
September 29 - PM and Sonia Gandhi inaugurated Unique Identification Numbers (UID) project.
September 30 - Ayodha Verdict finally out, Allahabad Bench applauded.
September 26 – Arjun Kumar Sengupta, MP from West Bengal, died of prostate cancer.
September 23 – K.B. Tilak, Indian independence activist, producer & director, died after long illness.
September 18 - Mohinder Singh Pujji, Sikh fighter pilot, died of stroke.
September 17 – Puttaraj Gawai, Kannada author & musician, died after long illness.
September 12 – Swarnalatha, popular South Indian film playback singer, died of lung infection.
September 9 – Venu Nagavally, Malayalam actor, screenwriter, died.
September 8 – Murali, veteran Tamil actor, died of heart attack.
September 5 – Homi Sethna, nuclear scientist & chemical engineer, died.
OCTOBER
October 20 – Parthasarathy Sharma, cricketer, died of cancer.
October 8 – S.S. Chandran, comedy actor & politician from Tamil Nadu, died of heart attack.
October 7 – A. Venkatachalam, MLA from Tamil Nadu was stabbed to death.
NOVEMBER
November 28 – Mahaveer Prasad, former union cabinet minister, died after long illness.
November 26 – Shahir Vitthal Umap, folk singer from Nagpur, died.
November 20 – Santha Devi, Malayalam actress, died.
November 17 – N. Viswanathan, actor & public speaker, died of heart attack.
November 13 – D.V.S. Raju, Telugu film producer, died after short illness.
November 6 – Siddhartha Shankar Ray, former Chief Minister of West Bengal & governor of Punjab, died of renal failure.
November 3 – P. Lal, poet, essayist, translator, professor & publisher from Punjab, died.
DECEMBER
December 5 – 20-year-old Nicole Faria from Bangalore, Miss India, wins the Miss Earth 2010 crown in Vinpearl Land, Nha Trang, Vietnam
December 26 – 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.
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