2014 in India refers to notable events that took place in the year 2014 in the Republic of India . Among the notable events were the 2014 Indian general election , in which Bharatiya Janata Party obtained a majority and Narendra Modi was sworn in as the Prime Minister of India . A new state of Telangana was formed. Also in 2014, Mars Orbiter Mission of India successfully entered Mars orbit.
Incumbents
Governors
Elections
General Elections
State Elections
Events
National income - ₹ 124,679,593 million
January - March
April - June
2 April – Reserve Bank of India granted preliminary licenses to Infrastructure Development Finance Company and Bandhan Financial Services to set up new banks.[ 32]
4 April – India's second navigation satellite IRNSS-1B was successfully placed in orbit.[ 33]
7 April – Phase 1 of Indian general election was held in Assam and Tripura .[ 34]
7 April – Two CRPF personnel were killed in a bomb explosion near Aurangabad in Bihar .[ 35]
9 April – Phase 2 of Indian general election was held in Arunachal Pradesh , Manipur , Meghalaya , Mizoram and Nagaland .[ 36]
10 April – Phase 3 of Indian general election was held in Andaman and Nicobar , Lakshadweep , Kerala , Haryana , Delhi , and Chandigarh .[ 37]
12 April – Phase 4 of Indian general election was held in Goa , Tripura , Assam and Sikkim .[ 38]
12 April – Seven polling staff and five CRPF personnel were killed in two separate Maoist attacks in Bijapur district and Bastar district in Chhattisgarh . The total death toll was 14.[ 39]
15 April – Supreme Court of India recognised transgender people / hijras as constituting a third gender .[ 40]
17 April – Phase 5 of Indian general election was held in West Bengal , Jharkhand , Karnataka , Odisha , Bihar , and Uttar Pradesh .[ 41]
17 April – Robin K. Dhowan appointed the Chief of Naval Staff of the Indian Navy .[ 42]
24 April – Phase 6 of Indian general election was held in Puducherry , Rajasthan , Maharashtra , West Bengal , and Tamil Nadu [ 43]
24 April – Maoists killed two polling staff, five police personnel and a cleaner in an ambush in Dumka district in Jharkhand [ 44]
30 April – Phase 7 of Indian general election was held in Punjab , Gujarat , Daman and Diu , Jammu and Kashmir and Telangana .[ 45]
1 May – An explosion of two low-intensity bombs happened on a Guwahati bound train from Bangalore arriving at the Chennai Central railway station, killing 1 woman passenger and injuring at least 14 others.[ 46]
1–3 May – A series of attacks were carried out by National Democratic Front of Bodoland on the migrant Muslims in Assam , killing 32.[ 47]
7 May – Phase 8 of Indian general election was held in Andhra Pradesh , Bihar , Himachal Pradesh , Jammu and Kashmir , Uttar Pradesh , Uttarakhand and West Bengal .[ 48]
12 May – Phase 9 of Indian general election was held in Bihar, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh. Indian General Elections were completed.[ 49]
16 May – Result of elections 2014 were declared. UPA was defeated, winning 61 seats compared to 218 in last elections, with a decrease of 167. NDA 's seat count increased by 198 to 335 in this elections, compared to 137 in last elections.[ 50]
22 May – Narendra Modi resigned as Chief minister of Gujarat .
26 May – New Prime Minister Narendra Modi took oath as Prime Minister of India along with other ministers from his council of ministers. The swearing-in ceremony was noted by media for being the first ever swearing-in of an Indian Prime Minister to have been attended by the heads of all SAARC countries.[ 51]
27 May - 2014 Badaun gang rape allegations .
2 June – According to Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 , Indian state of Andhra Pradesh was split in two new states Telangana and Andhra Pradesh with Hyderabad remaining the joint capital for 10 years. This made 29 states and 7 seven union territories in India .[ 52]
3 June – Newly appointed Union Rural Development Minister Gopinath Munde killed in a car crash.[ 53]
4 June – Police rescued more than 500 children who had been trafficked from eastern states into Kerala .[ 54]
8 June – On an excursion trip to Himachal Pradesh , 24 students from Hyderabad were washed away in the Beas river on Sunday after a hydropower plant allegedly discharged water into the river without any warning. The incident took place in Thalaut on Manali-Kiratpur Highway, 40 km from district headquarters Mandi .[ 55] [ 56]
26 June – A pipeline belonging to GAIL caught fire killing 19 in Nagaram village of East Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh .[ 57]
30 June – ISRO launched PSLV-C23 with 5 foreign satellites: SPOT 7 , AISat, NLS7.1 (CAN-X4 ), NLS7.2 (CAN-X5) and VELOX 1, from Sriharikota .[ 58]
July - September
Acharya Shri Mahashraman ji , the 11th acharya of Jain Shwetambar Terapanth sect arrived in the capital of the country
October - December
2 October – Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Swachh Bharat Abhiyan cleanliness drive.[ 75]
10 October – The recipients of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize were announced, awarded to India's Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai .[ 76]
12 October – Cyclone Hudhud made landfall near Visakhapatnam , Andhra Pradesh.[ 77]
31 October – Devendra Fadnavis took oath as the 18th Chief Minister of Maharashtra
8 November – 11 women died and more than 20 were hospitalised after a state funded mass-sterilization drive near Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh.[ 78]
12 November – Public sector bank employees carried out a day-long strike to demand a wage revision.[ 79]
25 November – Polling begins for Jammu and Kashmir and Jharkhand assembly elections.[ 80]
27 November – Five civilians and three army personnel were killed in an encounter with militants in Arnia sector, Jammu . Four militants were killed after a day-long gun battle.[ 81]
1 December – 14 CRPF personnel were killed in Sukma district of south Chhattisgarh when a patrol team was ambushed.[ 82]
2 December – A CRPF personnel was killed and 4 others were injured when a grenade was tossed at a patrol in Pulwama district in south Kashmir. Three civilians were also injured.[ 83]
2–6 December – Public sector bank employees carried out a relay strike demanding higher wages. The bank employees did not report to work on 2 December in the south zone, followed by north, east and west zones on 3, 4 and 5 December.[ 84]
5 December – A militant attack on a military camp killed 8 Indian soldiers and 3 policemen near Uri in Baramulla district . 6 militants were also killed.[ 85] In a separate incident on the same day, in Soura of Srinagar district , two terrorists were killed in an encounter. In Tral, Pulwama district, a terrorist threw a grenade at a bus stop, which killed 2 civilians.[ 86]
18 December – ISRO tests a crew reentry module in the Crew Module Atmospheric Re-entry Experiment using a GSLV Mk III launch vehicle.[ 87]
23–26 December – 81 killed in attacks by National Democratic Front of Bodoland in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam .[ 88]
31 December – Indian officials said that a Pakistani fishing boat blew itself up on New Year's Eve after being chased an Indian Coast Guard patrol.[ 89]
Publications
Deaths
January
February – June
7 February – S. M. H. Burney , 90, former civil servant (born 1923)[ 108]
13 February – Balu Mahendra , 75, director and cinematographer (born 1939)[ 109]
20 March – Khushwant Singh , 99, novelist, journalist (born 1915)[ 110]
25 March – Nanda , 75, actress in Hindi and Marathi films (born 1939)[ 111]
7 April – V. K. Murthy , 90, cinematographer (born 1923)[ 112]
12 May – Bhagwandas Mulchand Luthria aka Sudhir, 70, character actor in Hindi films (born 1944)[ 113]
16 May – Russi Mody , 96, former Chairman and Managing Director of Tata Steel (born 1918)[ 114]
17 May – C. P. Krishnan Nair , 92, Founder-Chairman of the Leela Group of Hotels (born 1922)[ 115]
2 June
3 June – Gopinath Munde , 64, Minister of Rural Development (born 1949)[ 117]
19 June – Shrenik Kasturbhai Lalbhai , 88, businessman and philanthropist
July – December
10 July – Zohra Sehgal , 102, theatre artiste, choreographer, film actress (born 1912)[ 118]
6 August – Pran Kumar Sharma , 75, cartoonist, creator of Chacha Chaudhary (born 1938)[ 119]
20 August – B. K. S. Iyengar , 95, yoga teacher (born 1918)[ 120]
22 August – U. R. Ananthamurthy , 81, writer in Kannada (born 1932)[ 121]
19 September – U. Srinivas also known as Mandolin Srinivas, 45, mandolin player and composer (born 1969)[ 122]
3 November – Sadashiv Amrapurkar , 64, actor in Hindi and Marathi films (born 1950)[ 123]
12 November – Ravi Chopra , 68, producer and director in Hindi films (born 1946)[ 124]
2 December – Deven Verma , 77, actor, comedian (born 1937)[ 125]
2 December – A. R. Antulay , 85, politician, former Union Cabinet Minister, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra (born 1929)[ 126]
23 December – K. Balachander , 84, film director, producer, writer, actor, playwright, stage conductor (born 1930)[ 127]
25 December – N. L. Balakrishnan , 71, still photographer and actor in Malayalam films (born 1943)[ 128]
Transport
January
February
March
April
16 April – The 15666 DN Dimapur-Kamakhya BG Express train derailed near Aujuri in Assam , injuring about 56 passengers.[ 137]
May
June
July
August
December
8 December – Uber and similar service were banned in Delhi, after an Uber driver was accused of rape.[ 148] Later, other Indian states like Karnataka , Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, and the city of Chandigarh banned Uber and similar services.[ 149]
Sports
Cinema
Bollywood
Sandalwood
Marathi
Tamil
Holidays
List of public holidays in India for 2014:[ 159]
See also
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