2010 in India

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Template:Year in region Events in the year 2010 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents[edit]

Photo Post Name
PratibhaIndia.jpg India President Pratibha Patil
Hamid ansari.jpg India Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in WEF ,2009.jpg India Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh
K. G. Balakrishnan.jpg India Chief Justice K. G. Balakrishnan (till 12 May)
S. H. Kapadia (starting 12 May)

Governors[edit]

Post Name
Andhra Pradesh E. S. L. Narasimhan
Arunachal Pradesh Joginder Jaswant Singh
Assam Janaki Ballabh Patnaik
Bihar Devanand Konwar
Chhattisgarh E. S. L. Narasimhan (until 23 January)
Shekhar Dutt (starting 23 January)
Goa Shivinder Singh Sidhu
Gujarat Kamala Beniwal
Haryana Jagannath Pahadia
Himachal Pradesh Prabha Rau (until 23 January)
Urmila Singh (starting 23 January)
Jammu and Kashmir Narinder Nath Vohra
Jharkhand Kateekal Sankaranarayanan (until 21 January)
M. O. H. Farook (starting 22 January)
Karnataka Hansraj Bhardwaj
Kerala R. S. Gavai (until 7 September)
M. O. H. Farook (starting 7 September)
Madhya Pradesh Rameshwar Thakur (until 7 September)
Ram Naresh Yadav (starting 7 September)
Maharashtra S.C. Jamir (until 22 January)
Kateekal Sankaranarayanan (starting 22 January)
Manipur Gurbachan Jagat
Meghalaya Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary
Mizoram M. M. Lakhera (until 2 September)
Vakkom Purushothaman (starting 2 September)
Nagaland Nikhil Kumar
Odisha Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare
Punjab Sunith Francis Rodrigues (until 22 January)
Shivraj Vishwanath Patil (starting 22 January)
Rajasthan Prabha Rau (until 26 April)
Shivraj Patil (starting 26 April)
Sikkim Balmiki Prasad Singh
Tamil Nadu Surjit Singh Barnala
Tripura Dnyandeo Yashwantrao Patil
Uttar Pradesh Banwari Lal Joshi
Uttarakhand Margaret Alva
West Bengal Devanand Konwar (until 23 January)
M.K. Narayanan (starting 23 January)

Events[edit]

January[edit]

February[edit]

March[edit]

April[edit]

May[edit]

Cyclone Laila over India, 19 May 2010

June[edit]

July[edit]

August[edit]

September[edit]

October[edit]

  • Opening Ceremony of the XIX Commonwealth Games held in Delhi.
    3 October – XIX Commonwealth Games, were held in Delhi, India, from 3 to 14 October 2010.
  • 3 October – Violet Line of the Delhi Metro system opened.
  • 10 October – At least 36 people die after an overloaded boat capsizes on the Ganges River in the Buxar district of India's Bihar state.[80]
  • Mid-October, Mrs. Kashmira and Dr. Leo Rebello visit Andaman Islands, flying directly from Bombay to Portblair, on a chartered flight of Yatra travel, and find Jarawas (tar black people) still roaming fully naked hardly 30 km away from the Governor's Palace. Visit the Cellular Jail and recommend that the said imposing edifice should be turned into a Heritage-Jail Hotel, and oppose the setting up of an Allopathy hospital on the campus of the Cellular Jail to medicate the Jarawas, destroying their original genetic pool of over 5000 years old.
  • 11 October – 18 people are killed when a bus falls into a river in Bulandshahr district, Uttar Pradesh, India.[81]
  • 25 October – More than 700 species of ancient insects are discovered preserved in amber in an ancient rainforest in India.[82]
  • 30 October – At least 16 people drown and 70 are missing after an overcrowded ferry sinks in a river in West Bengal, eastern India.[83]

November[edit]

December[edit]

  • 5 December – 20-year-old Nicole Faria from Bangalore, Miss India, wins the Miss Earth 2010 crown in Vinpearl Land, Nha Trang, Vietnam.[87]
  • 10 December – Agni-II plus missile test fails in Orissa, India test-fired an upgraded version of the Agni-II plus nuclear-capable intermediate range ballistic missile off the Orissa coast. The test was declared a failure. The latest version of the "Agni" series missile is described as a two-stage, solid propellant rail and road mobile missile.
  • 26 December – A collision between a bus and a mini-truck kills 34 people and leaves 30 injured, near the town of Budaun in Uttar Pradesh state, in northern India.[88]
  • Late December – Onion price rise in Indian markets leads to political tensions.[89]

Predicted and scheduled events[edit]

Sports[edit]

Hockey[edit]

Cricket[edit]

Football[edit]

Multi Sports Games[edit]

Others[edit]

Births[edit]

Full date unknown[edit]

  • Falak, baby murder victim (d. 2012)

Deaths[edit]

January – July[edit]

August – December[edit]

Major public holidays[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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