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2010 in India

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Events in the year 2010 in the Republic of India.

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  • National income - 76,344,721 million

January

February

  • 5 February – The last native of India's Andaman Islands fluent in the Aka-Bo language dies, rendering the language extinct. [citation needed]
  • 8 February – At least 17 Indian soldiers are killed in an avalanche in Kashmir.[6][7]
  • 13 February – 2010 Pune bombing: a bomb exploded at the German Bakery in the city of Pune in western India, killing 17 people and injuring at least 60 others. Two little known groups calling themselves the Lashkar-e-Taiba Al Alami and the Mujahideen Islami Muslim Front claimed they were behind the bomb attack. However, according to government agencies, the attack could have been part of a project by Lashkar-e-Taiba to use the Indian Mujahideen, called the 'Karachi project'. David Coleman Headley a Pakistani-American terror suspect has been accused of involvement in the project.[8]
  • 15 February – Silda camp attack: A Naxalite attack on an army camp in West Bengal kills 24 Indian soldiers, with many more reported missing.[9]
  • 17 February – 2010 Jalaun district bus crash: At least 22 people are killed in a bus crash in Northern India.[10]

March

April

May

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Cyclone Laila over India, 19 May 2010

June

July

August

September

October

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    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.[83]
  • 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.[84]
  • 25 October – More than 700 species of ancient insects are discovered preserved in amber in an ancient rainforest in India.[85]
  • 29 October - Two siblings were kidnapped, tortured and killed on their way to school by a driver in Coimbatore.[86]
  • 30 October – At least 16 people drown and 70 are missing after an overcrowded ferry sinks in a river in West Bengal, eastern India.[87]

November

December

  • 5 December – 20-year-old Nicole Faria from Bangalore, Miss India, wins the Miss Earth 2010 crown in Vinpearl Land, Nha Trang, Vietnam.[91]
  • 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.[92]
  • Late December – Onion price rise in Indian markets leads to political tensions.[93]
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Births

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  • Falak, baby murder victim (d. 2012)

Deaths

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Bhairon Singh Shekhawat

January – July


6 Nov Louis Clement dies due to Tumor 63

August – December

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