Jan 1: India scraps the scam-tainted Rs 3,600 crore VVIP helicopter deal with Anglo-Italian firm AgustaWestland, nearly a year after allegations surfaced that kickbacks to the tune of Rs 360 crore were paid to bag the contract.
Jan 1: Lt Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag, who is tipped to be the next Army Chief, takes over as the Vice Chief of the Army Staff.
Jan 2: The minority Aam Aadmi Party government crosses the first hurdle in the Delhi Assembly when its confidence motion sailed through easily with the backing of the members of Congress, JD(U) and an independent.
Jan 3: Following the December 16, 2012 gangrape incident, Delhi Police in a landmark decision announces that charge sheets in rape cases will be filed within 20 days to ensure speedy justice to victims.
Jan 4: A team of senior Indian officials leaves for Sudan, which is witnessing ethnic conflict that has killed at least 1,000 people so far.
Jan 5: Delhi Minister Rakhi Birla escapes unhurt in an attack on her car by unknown persons in Mangolpuri.
Jan 5: Vice President Hamid Ansari and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh hails the successful launch of GSLV D5 satellite (It was developed to enable India to launch its satellites without dependence on foreign rockets and providers. GSLV has attempted eight launches to date, since its first launch in 2001 through its most recent launch in 2014. GSLV-D5, launched on January 5, 2014, was the first successful flight of the GSLV Mark.II using the indigenously developed cryogenic engine, the CE-7.5.The first sub-orbital flight of the GSLV Mark III was successfully launched on 18 December 2014).
Jan 6: Aam Aadmi Party disapproves of its leader Prashant Bhushan's comment on carrying out a referendum for deployment of Army in Jammu and Kashmir after it touched off a major controversy
Jan 6: Manipur's M Khayingthei and Mizoram's Ramdinthara, who lost their lives while trying to save friends from drowning, are among three persons selected for 'Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha Padak'.
Jan 8: Activists of a fringe right-wing group attacks and vandalises the Aam Aadmi Party headquarters in Kaushambi here protesting against the controversial remarks of its senior leader Prashant Bhushan on the presence of security forces in Jammu and Kashmir.
Jan 8: President Pranab Mukherjee assures Bhutan that India will continue to support capacity building efforts in the neighbouring country.
Jan 8: Nine passengers are charred to death in their sleep when a blaze ripped through three coaches of Bandra-Dehradun Express in Thane district in the wee hours, ten days after a fire mishap in a train leaves 26 people dead.
Jan 9: Mahatma Gandhi's grand-daughter Ela Gandhi, Australian senator of Indian origin Lisa Maria Singh and Ramkrishna Mission in Fiji are among the 13 recipients of Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award conferred.
Jan 9: The anti-corruption helpline, by Delhi Government, receives nearly 4,000 calls in first seven hours of its operation.
Jan 10: Senior Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade indicted for visa fraud and making false statements by a grand jury in the US, returns.
Jan 11: Justice Swatanter Kumar, a former Supreme Court judge, sends a legal notice to certain media organisations demanding apology for publicising allegations of sexual harassment levelled against him by a law intern.
Jan 11: Chaos prevailed at the first 'janta darbar' by AAP government forcing Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to leave the venue mid-way.
Jan 14: Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti comes under attack from ally Congress and opposition BJP which demand his removal over his being indicted by a court for ""tampering of evidence"" in a case in which he had appeared as a lawyer.
Jan 15: A 51-year-old Danish tourist has been allegedly robbed and gangraped at knife-point near New Delhi railway station.
Jan 15: India and Pakistan discuss ""impediments"" hampering the normalisation of trade ties, in a bid to remove them and move forward.
Jan 16: Aam Aadmi Party MLA Vinod Kumar Binny mounts a shrill attack on Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by calling him a ""dictator"" and accused his government of cheating people, prompting the party to threaten disciplinary action against the legislator.
Jan 17: Sunanda Pushkar, who was upset over an alleged extra-marital affair between her minister husband Shashi Tharoor and a Pakistani journalist, was found dead in a five-star hotel room ( leela palace hotel in Delhi) which police suspect may be a case of suicide.
Jan 17: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh joins other political leaders to condole the death of actress Suchitra Sen ( bengali actress), saying she had ""graceful cinematic presence.""
Jan 19: 18 people are killed and over 40 injured in a stampede as thousands of mourners converged to pay their last respects to the spiritual leader of the Dawoodi Bohra community Syedna Burhanuddin
Jan 21: Drug overdose appears to be the cause of the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Union Minister Shashi Tharoor, according to the findings of doctors of AIIMS who conducted the autopsy on her.
Jan 21: Ministry of External Affairs rejects Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's claim that a Ugandan official had met his Law minister Somnath Bharti in connection with an alleged sex racket.
Jan 22: Akkineni Nageswara Rao, who scaled the peaks of Telugu cinema rivalling N T Rama Rao in stature between 50s and 70s, dies of cancer.
Jan 23: President Pranab Mukherjee gives seven more days to the Andhra Pradesh Assembly till January 30 to discuss and debate the draft Telangana bill before returning it to the Centre which promised to table the legislation in the upcoming session of Parliament.
Jan 24: In a controversial decision, the Army closes the infamous Pathribal encounter case (on 25 March 2000, Indian military forces killed five men in Pathribal village of Anantnag district, claiming that the victims were the "foreign militants" responsible for the attacks.) saying it has found no evidence against its men, drawing angry reaction from Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah
Jan 25: Noted scientist R A Mashelkar and Yoga Guru B K S Iyengar are chosen for this year's Padma Vibhushan, while cine star Kamala Haasan, author Ruskin Bond and late former Chief Justice of india ,J S Verma were selected for Padma Bhushan.
Jan 25: Three personnel of the armed forces have been selected this year for the Kirti Chakra, the second highest peace time gallantry award, for their acts of bravery on the Line of Control (LoC), anti-maoist operation and relief operation in flood-hit Uttarakhand, respectively.
Jan 26: Cracking the whip, the Aam Aadmi Party expels its rebel MLA Binod Kumar Binny, ten days after he called Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal a ""dictator"".
Jan 26: Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is the Chief Guest at the 65th Republic Day parade becoming the first premier from that country to grace the occasion.
Jan 27: The Jain community becomes the sixth religious group ( other 5 are christians, parsis , muslims,sikhs and buddhists ) accorded with the minority status following a notification issued by the Centre.
Jan 28: Railway Minister Mallikarjun Kharge is given additional charge of Social Justice and Empowerment ministry following the resignation of Kumari Selja.
Jan 29: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh rejects BJP leader Arun Jaitley's contention that government flouted rules by issuing an advertisement inviting applications for posts of Lokpal chairman and members were illegal.
Jan 30: The Union Cabinet gave its approval to a bill that seeks to give wakf properties the status of public premises and make unauthorised occupation of waqf land a criminal offence.
Jan 30: Government suspends the ambitious scheme to pay LPG subsidy in cash to consumers directly but raises the quota of subsidised cooking gas to 12 cylinders per household in a year.
Jan 31: Vijay Bahuguna resigns as Uttarakhand Chief Minister.
Jan 31: Government orders magisterial inquiry into death of Nido Tania, son of a Congress leader from Arunachal Pradesh, who was allegedly beaten up by some shopkeepers in Lajpat Nagar area of South Delhi.
Jan 1: Lt Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag, who is tipped to be the next Army Chief, takes over as the Vice Chief of the Army Staff.
Jan 2: The minority Aam Aadmi Party government crosses the first hurdle in the Delhi Assembly when its confidence motion sailed through easily with the backing of the members of Congress, JD(U) and an independent.
Jan 3: Following the December 16, 2012 gangrape incident, Delhi Police in a landmark decision announces that charge sheets in rape cases will be filed within 20 days to ensure speedy justice to victims.
Jan 4: A team of senior Indian officials leaves for Sudan, which is witnessing ethnic conflict that has killed at least 1,000 people so far.
Jan 5: Delhi Minister Rakhi Birla escapes unhurt in an attack on her car by unknown persons in Mangolpuri.
Jan 5: Vice President Hamid Ansari and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh hails the successful launch of GSLV D5 satellite (It was developed to enable India to launch its satellites without dependence on foreign rockets and providers. GSLV has attempted eight launches to date, since its first launch in 2001 through its most recent launch in 2014. GSLV-D5, launched on January 5, 2014, was the first successful flight of the GSLV Mark.II using the indigenously developed cryogenic engine, the CE-7.5.The first sub-orbital flight of the GSLV Mark III was successfully launched on 18 December 2014).
Jan 6: Aam Aadmi Party disapproves of its leader Prashant Bhushan's comment on carrying out a referendum for deployment of Army in Jammu and Kashmir after it touched off a major controversy
Jan 6: Manipur's M Khayingthei and Mizoram's Ramdinthara, who lost their lives while trying to save friends from drowning, are among three persons selected for 'Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha Padak'.
Jan 8: Activists of a fringe right-wing group attacks and vandalises the Aam Aadmi Party headquarters in Kaushambi here protesting against the controversial remarks of its senior leader Prashant Bhushan on the presence of security forces in Jammu and Kashmir.
Jan 8: President Pranab Mukherjee assures Bhutan that India will continue to support capacity building efforts in the neighbouring country.
Jan 8: Nine passengers are charred to death in their sleep when a blaze ripped through three coaches of Bandra-Dehradun Express in Thane district in the wee hours, ten days after a fire mishap in a train leaves 26 people dead.
Jan 9: Mahatma Gandhi's grand-daughter Ela Gandhi, Australian senator of Indian origin Lisa Maria Singh and Ramkrishna Mission in Fiji are among the 13 recipients of Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award conferred.
Jan 9: The anti-corruption helpline, by Delhi Government, receives nearly 4,000 calls in first seven hours of its operation.
Jan 10: Senior Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade indicted for visa fraud and making false statements by a grand jury in the US, returns.
Jan 11: Justice Swatanter Kumar, a former Supreme Court judge, sends a legal notice to certain media organisations demanding apology for publicising allegations of sexual harassment levelled against him by a law intern.
Jan 11: Chaos prevailed at the first 'janta darbar' by AAP government forcing Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to leave the venue mid-way.
Jan 14: Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti comes under attack from ally Congress and opposition BJP which demand his removal over his being indicted by a court for ""tampering of evidence"" in a case in which he had appeared as a lawyer.
Jan 15: A 51-year-old Danish tourist has been allegedly robbed and gangraped at knife-point near New Delhi railway station.
Jan 15: India and Pakistan discuss ""impediments"" hampering the normalisation of trade ties, in a bid to remove them and move forward.
Jan 16: Aam Aadmi Party MLA Vinod Kumar Binny mounts a shrill attack on Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by calling him a ""dictator"" and accused his government of cheating people, prompting the party to threaten disciplinary action against the legislator.
Jan 17: Sunanda Pushkar, who was upset over an alleged extra-marital affair between her minister husband Shashi Tharoor and a Pakistani journalist, was found dead in a five-star hotel room ( leela palace hotel in Delhi) which police suspect may be a case of suicide.
Jan 17: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh joins other political leaders to condole the death of actress Suchitra Sen ( bengali actress), saying she had ""graceful cinematic presence.""
Jan 19: 18 people are killed and over 40 injured in a stampede as thousands of mourners converged to pay their last respects to the spiritual leader of the Dawoodi Bohra community Syedna Burhanuddin
Jan 21: Drug overdose appears to be the cause of the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Union Minister Shashi Tharoor, according to the findings of doctors of AIIMS who conducted the autopsy on her.
Jan 21: Ministry of External Affairs rejects Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's claim that a Ugandan official had met his Law minister Somnath Bharti in connection with an alleged sex racket.
Jan 22: Akkineni Nageswara Rao, who scaled the peaks of Telugu cinema rivalling N T Rama Rao in stature between 50s and 70s, dies of cancer.
Jan 23: President Pranab Mukherjee gives seven more days to the Andhra Pradesh Assembly till January 30 to discuss and debate the draft Telangana bill before returning it to the Centre which promised to table the legislation in the upcoming session of Parliament.
Jan 24: In a controversial decision, the Army closes the infamous Pathribal encounter case (on 25 March 2000, Indian military forces killed five men in Pathribal village of Anantnag district, claiming that the victims were the "foreign militants" responsible for the attacks.) saying it has found no evidence against its men, drawing angry reaction from Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah
Jan 25: Noted scientist R A Mashelkar and Yoga Guru B K S Iyengar are chosen for this year's Padma Vibhushan, while cine star Kamala Haasan, author Ruskin Bond and late former Chief Justice of india ,J S Verma were selected for Padma Bhushan.
Jan 25: Three personnel of the armed forces have been selected this year for the Kirti Chakra, the second highest peace time gallantry award, for their acts of bravery on the Line of Control (LoC), anti-maoist operation and relief operation in flood-hit Uttarakhand, respectively.
Jan 26: Cracking the whip, the Aam Aadmi Party expels its rebel MLA Binod Kumar Binny, ten days after he called Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal a ""dictator"".
Jan 26: Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is the Chief Guest at the 65th Republic Day parade becoming the first premier from that country to grace the occasion.
Jan 27: The Jain community becomes the sixth religious group ( other 5 are christians, parsis , muslims,sikhs and buddhists ) accorded with the minority status following a notification issued by the Centre.
Jan 28: Railway Minister Mallikarjun Kharge is given additional charge of Social Justice and Empowerment ministry following the resignation of Kumari Selja.
Jan 29: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh rejects BJP leader Arun Jaitley's contention that government flouted rules by issuing an advertisement inviting applications for posts of Lokpal chairman and members were illegal.
Jan 30: The Union Cabinet gave its approval to a bill that seeks to give wakf properties the status of public premises and make unauthorised occupation of waqf land a criminal offence.
Jan 30: Government suspends the ambitious scheme to pay LPG subsidy in cash to consumers directly but raises the quota of subsidised cooking gas to 12 cylinders per household in a year.
Jan 31: Vijay Bahuguna resigns as Uttarakhand Chief Minister.
Jan 31: Government orders magisterial inquiry into death of Nido Tania, son of a Congress leader from Arunachal Pradesh, who was allegedly beaten up by some shopkeepers in Lajpat Nagar area of South Delhi.
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