2007 in India - Events

Events

• 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.
• January 10 – 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 manned spaceflight program.
• January 17 – 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.
• January 22 – 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.
• January 24 – India and Russia agree to jointly develop fifth-generation stealth fighter jets.
• February 18 – 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings: Islamist militants from the Lashkar-e-Taiba 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, 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of New Delhi. 68 people were killed in the ensuing fire and dozens more were injured.
• February 20 – 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.
• March 4 – 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 Jharkand organised to mark the Hindu festival of Holi.
• March 15 – Naxalite rebels attack a police outpost in the Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, India, killing at least 49 officers and looting their weapons.
• April - Dr. Leo Rebello files online, a Writ Petition (C) no.219 of 2007, in the Supreme Court of India pointing out Grave Irregularities in the Presidential and Vice Presidential Elections in India. It is rejected in limine, by CJI K.G.Balakrishna of the SCI. He files a Review which too is not allowed. He then files Contempt Petition on the CJI, which too is filed. Details in Part III of Dr. Leo's Lens.
• April 16 – 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.
• May 18 – 18 May 2007 Hyderabad Bombing: 9 people are killed in a bomb blast at the Mecca Masjid mosque in the Indian city of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
• July 19 – Prathiba Patil is elected as the first female President of India.
• August 25 – Forty-four people are dead after two bombs explode in Hyderabad.
• August – India and the United States release the text of 123 agreement. This has been very controversial in the Indian political environment with both Left and NDA opposing the UPA over the issue.
• November 11 – Miss India-Earth Pooja Chitgopekar won in Miss Earth 2007 beauty pageant as Miss Earth-Air (1st-runner up) held in Manila, Philippines.
• November 21 – Calcutta - Protests over Bangladeshi feminist writer Taslima Nasreen turn into deadly riots; troops are deployed.
• December 22 – Narendra Modi led government in Gujarat completes its term.