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2007 in India

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Events in the year 2007 in the Republic of India.

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Events

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  • National income - {{INR}}48,986,621 million
  • January–November – Nandigram violence – Clashes between opposition parties, the governing Communist Party of India (Marxist) and police in Nandigram, West Bengal. On 14 March, 14 villagers were killed in police firing.
  • 10 January – India launches four satellites at a time with their PSLV -C7 rocket, including the SRE-1 test article, which will return to Earth in a test for a future Indian human spaceflight program.{{Cite web |url=http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2007-01-10T084639Z_01_DEL159433_RTRUKOC_0_US-INDIA-SPACE-SATELLITES.xml |title=Reuters |access-date=10 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070906175933/http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews |archive-date=6 September 2007 |url-status=dead}}
  • 17 January – Protests occur in India and the United Kingdom against the British series of Celebrity Big Brother after Jade Goody, Danielle Lloyd and Jo O'Meara were alleged to have been racially abusive towards Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty.
  • 22 January – Indian spacecraft SRE 1 successfully completes a twelve-day orbital test flight, making India one of the few nations to return a craft from orbit.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6286663.stm BBC]
  • 24 January – India and Russia agree to jointly develop fifth-generation stealth fighter jets.{{Cite web |url=http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=42250 |title=ISRO |access-date=10 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929094301/http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=42250 |archive-date=29 September 2007 |url-status=dead}}
  • 18 February – 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings: Hindutva militants from the Abhinav Bharat organization set off a bomb on the Samjhauta Express, a twice-weekly train service connecting Delhi, India, and Lahore, Pakistan. Bombs were set off in two carriages, both filled with passengers, just after the train passed Diwana station near the Indian city of Panipat, {{convert|80|km|mi}} north of New Delhi. 68 people were killed in the ensuing fire and dozens more were injured.[http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/DEL341952.htm Reuters Alertnet]
  • 20 February – A river boat carrying children on a school trip on the Periyar River in southern India capsizes, killing at least 18 students and four teachers.[http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/02/20/india.boat.ap/index.html?eref=rss_world AP via CNN]{{dead link|date=May 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
  • 4 March – Sunil Kumar Mahato, an Indian member of parliament from the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, is killed by suspected Maoist rebels while he was attending a local football match in Jharkhand organised to mark the Hindu festival of Holi.[https://web.archive.org/web/20070306073617/http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/05/stories/2007030513330100.htm The Hindu]
  • 15 March – Naxalite rebels attack a police outpost in the Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, India, killing at least 49 officers and looting their weapons.[https://web.archive.org/web/20121016043854/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2007-03-15/india/27877564_1_naxals-outpost-in-bijapur-district-police-outpost Times of India]
  • 16 April – At least 11 people die in southern India as a passenger train runs into a minibus carrying local officials near the village of Thirumatpur in Tamil Nadu.[http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4717837.html AP via Houston Chronicle]
  • 18 May – 18 May 2007 Hyderabad Bombing: 9 people are killed in a bomb blast at the Mecca Masjid mosque in the Indian city of Hyderabad, India.{{Cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/may/18blast.htm|title = 9 killed in Hyderabad blast; 5 in police firing}}
  • 19 July – Pratibha Patil is elected as the first female President of India.
  • 25 August – Forty-four people are dead after two bombs explode in Hyderabad.
  • August – India and the United States release the text of 123 agreement.[https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2007/aug/90050.htm US press release] This has been very controversial in the Indian political environment with both Left and NDA opposing the UPA over the issue.
  • 24 September – India won the ICC t20 world cup 2007 by beating their rivals Pakistan in the final
  • 11 November – Miss India-Earth Pooja Chitgopekar won in Miss Earth 2007 beauty pageant as Miss Earth-Air (1st-runner up) held in Manila, Philippines.
  • 21 November – Calcutta – Protests over Bangladeshi feminist writer Taslima Nasreen turn into deadly riots; troops are deployed.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7105277.stm |title=Army deployed after Calcutta riot | work=BBC News | date=21 November 2007 | access-date=2010-01-01}}
  • 22 December – Narendra Modi led government in Gujarat completes its term.
  • 29 December - Sunil Joshi, a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh functionary shot dead in Madhya Pradesh allegedly by proponents of Saffron terror.{{Cite web |date=2015-09-21 |title=Sunil Joshi murder: A case of twists and turns |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/sunil-joshi-murder-a-case-of-twists-and-turns/ |access-date=2023-02-19 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}

Deaths

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See also

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References

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External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070605082405/http://www.internationalhospitalityfair.in/index.asp CII India Trade Fair]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20170714111455/http://www.tradefairofindia.com/ Trade Fair of India]

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