Events in the year 2009 in the Republic of India .
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1 January – National Investigation Agency (NIA) Bill and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment (UAPA) Bill , the new anti-terror regime came into force with President Pratibha Patil giving her assent. (The Hindu)
1 January – 2009 Guwahati bombings : Five persons, including a boy and a woman, were killed and about 50 injured in serial bomb blasts in Guwahati , Assam .[1]
1 January – Indian Government decides to place officers in the rank of lieutenant colonel and their equivalents in the other two services on a higher pay band and constitute a separate pay commission in a move to redress the grievances of Indian Armed Forces personnel over anomalies in pay structures . (The Hindu)
2 January – Indian Government in tandem with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announces the much-awaited second Stimulus Package aimed at reversing the economic slowdown . (The Hindu)
2 January – Kapil Dev , Sunil Gavaskar and Bishan Singh Bedi figure among the 55 players in the ICC's inaugural Hall of Fame list. (The Hindu)
4 January – All-India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC) decided to go ahead with its indefinite strike from midnight of 5 January. (The Hindu)
4 January – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) formally dissociates itself from the United Progressive Alliance (UPA). (The Hindu)
5 January – Indian Government summons Pakistan High Commissioner Shahid Malik to hand over evidence about Pakistan's involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks . (The Hindu)
7 January – Satyam Scandal : In a letter to the Satyam board and the market regulator, SEBI , Ramalinga Raju , the founder and CEO of Satyam Computer Services , confessed that he has been creating fake invoices and that the company cash was all fictitious. The BSE crashed 749 points, wiping out about $23bn of investors wealth.(The Times of India)
13 February – 2009 Orissa train derailment : A passenger train derails in Bhubaneswar , Orissa , killing at least 15 people and injuring 150 others.[2]
23 February – India approves a £ 1.7-billion plan to launch its first astronauts into outer space by 2015.[3]
25 February – A bus crashes in Indian-administered Kashmir , killing 35 people and injuring 15.[4]
25 February – Former Indian Communications Minister Sukh Ram is jailed for three years for corruption .[5]
24 March – Sixteen militants and eight Indian Army soldiers are killed in Jammu and Kashmir 's Kupwara District .[6]
1 April – No additional charges on withdrawing money from an ATM of a different bank.[7]
April–May – General Elections held.
16 April – The Naxalite movement kills 17 people as India's general election begins.[8]
20 April – India's Space Research Organization launches its RISAT-2 reconnaissance satellite .[9]
19 May – Manmohan Singh of the National Congress is re-elected as Prime Minister of India.[10]
21 May – The Communist Party kills 16 police officers near Nagpur , Maharashtra .[11]
25 May – Cyclone Aila ravages the east coast killing at least 149[12] [13] [14] and hundreds others were left homeless as torrential rains led to flooding.
3 June – Indian Member of Parliament Meira Kumar becomes the first female Speaker of the House of the People .
4 June – Two hundred thousand people attend the funeral of Dera Sach Khand leader Sant Ramanand Dass in Jalandhar , Punjab , India.[15] [16]
17 June – Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari .[17]
20 June – Indian troops enter Lalgarh , a Maoist stronghold in West Bengal , claiming a partial victory.
2 July – A 148-year-old colonial law banning homosexual intercourse in India is overturned by the High Court in New Delhi.[18] [19]
3 July – Three people die and over a dozen are injured in riots after a dead pig is thrown into an under-construction mosque in Mysore , India.[20]
Manmohan Singh with American President Barack Obama at the White House , 24 November 2009
Chandrayaan-1 , India's first uncrewed lunar probe , discovers large amounts of water on the Moon .
14 September – Chandrayaan-1 , India's first uncrewed lunar probe , discovers large amounts of water on the Moon .[35] [36]
30 September – 2009 Thekkady boat disaster : the double-decker passenger boat Jalakanyaka capsized in Lake Thekkady, killing a total of 45 passengers.
17 October – 32 people are killed in a fire at a fireworks warehouse in southern India, during the Diwali celebrations.[37] [38]
19 October – VA Shiva Ayyadurai publishes report alleging CSIR corruption .[39] [40] [41]
30 October – Indian Oil Fire in Jaipur : A large fire at an oil depot on the outskirts of Jaipur , Rajasthan , leaving six people dead and around 135 injured.[42]
6 November – At least 34 people are killed and 29 are injured when a bus falls into a gorge in Himachal Pradesh .[43]
22 November – At least seven people are killed and more than 55 injured in a bombing in Assam , northeastern India.[44]
24 November – Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had the first official state visit to the White House during the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama . Several discussions took place during the meeting, including on trade and nuclear power.
10 December – India announces it is to create a new state , Telangana , out of Andhra Pradesh .[45]
13 December – India successfully test fires its nuclear-capable "Dhanush" missile off the Orissa coast.[46]
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15 January – Tapan Sinha , 84, film director (born 1924)
27 January – R. Venkataraman , 98, the 8th President of India (born 1910)
31 January – Nagesh , actor (born 1933)[47]
9 April – Shakti Samanta , 83, film director and producer (born 1926)
Feroz Khan 27 April – Feroz Khan , 69, film actor and producer (born 1939)
17 May – Prakash Mehra , 69, film director and producer (born 1939)
31 May – Kamala Das , 75, writer and poet (born 1934)
8 June – Habib Tanvir , 85, dramatist and actor (born 1923)
28 June – A. K. Lohithadas , 54, filmmaker in Malayalam cinema (born 1955)
16 July – D. K. Pattammal , 90, Carnatic musician , one of the "female trinity of Carnatic Music" (born 1919)
21 July – Gangubai Hangal , 96, Hindustani classical singer (born 1913)
28 July – Leela Naidu , 69, film actress (born 1940)
29 July –
9 August –
Gulshan Bawra , 72, songwriter (born 1937)
Murali , 55, film and theatre actor, author (born 1954)
2 September – Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy , 60, 14th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (born 1949)
25 October – Adoor Bhavani , 82, film actress (born 1927)
10 November – Simple Kapadia , 51, film costume designer and actress (born 1958)
7 December – Bina Rai , 73, film actress (born 1936)
29 December – C. Aswath , 72, Kannada music director and singer (born 1938)
30 December – Vishnuvardhan , 59, Kannada film actor and singer (born 1950)