2011 in India

Events in the year 2011 in the Republic of India.

Events

National income - 87,363,287 million

January - June

1 January -
* Arabinda Rajkhowa, chairman of ULFA, was released on bail from the Guwahati central prison.
* India and Pakistan exchange the annual lists of their nuclear installations and facilities under the Agreement on the Prohibition of Attack against Nuclear Installations, which was signed on 31 December 1988.
* Nagesh Pydah assumed charge as Chairman and Managing Director of the Oriental Bank of Commerce.
6 January - Union Home Ministry publishes Srikrishna committee on Telangana online.
14 January- 102 pilgrims dies due to stampede in Sabarimala.
20 January - Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh launches Mobile number portability in India.
21 January - Karnataka Governor sanctions prosecution of CM B.S.Yeddyurappa.
following submission of its report.
25 January - Yashwant Sonawane, Additional District Collector of Malegaon burnt alive by oil mafia at Manmad near Nashik.
Suresh Kalmadi sacked as Chairman of Commonwealth Games Organizing Committee.
Former Telecom Minister A.Raja sent to Tihar Jail in 2G spectrum case.
Bombay High Court upholds death penalty for Ajmal Kasab.
Ahmedabad court convicts 31, acquits 63 in Godhra train burning case.
34th National Games Held in Ranchi, Jharkhand.
22 February - Kidnapped Malkangiri Collector released by Maoists.
3 March - Supreme Court strikes down CVC PJ Thomas' appointment.
PM Manmohan Singh and PM Gilani of Pakistan engage in cricket diplomacy on the occasion of India-Pakistan semi final match in Cricket World Cup 2011.
Supreme Court dismisses Aruna Shanbaug's euthanasia plea.
Hasan Ali remanded to judicial custody.
Saina Nehwal clinches Swiss Open Grand Prix.
DGCA revokes licenses of 14 fake pilots.
Census 2011 shows increase of 181 million in total population.2 April – India beat Sri Lanka and wins the 2011 Cricket World Cup.
30 April - Dorjee Khandu, Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh since 2007, dies in a helicopter crash.
Anna Hazare undertakes fast for Jan Lokpal Bill at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi.
Supreme Court grants bail to civil rights activist Binayak Sen.
Visit of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva of Thailand to India.
Five corporate honchos arrested in 2G spectrum case.
2011 I-League 2nd Division ends.Mamata Banerjee sworn in as the first woman and 11th Chief Minister of West Bengal.Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announces aid of 225 billion for African countries to develop infrastructure facilities on the eve of IInd Indo-Africa summit.
J.Jayalalithaa, Oommen Chandy, Tarun Gogoi and N. Rangaswamy takes over as Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry respectively, as a result of assembly elections.
Supreme Court quashes Karnataka Speaker's decision to disqualify 16 MLA's.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel conferred Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding for 2009 by President Pratibha Patil.India ratifies .
Chennai Super Kings win the IPL for the second consecutive time.
2010–11 I-League: Salgaocar FC won the title by beating JCT FC 2-0 in the final match of the season.
30 May - West Bengal defeats Manipur to win Santosh Trophy
Senior journalist and investigations editor with English newspaper 'Mid-Day', J. Dey, is shot dead in Mumbai.
Election Commission of India launches the IIDEM.

June - December

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key visits India.India gets first e-waste management rules.India ranks 123rd on the .
Supreme Court appoints committee to examine the secret chambers of Sri Padmanabhaswamy Temple, Kerala.
26 killed in a 2011 [Mumbai bombings|series of bomb-blasts] in Mumbai.
Gorkhaland Territorial Administration agreement signed.
India-Bangladesh ink border management deal.18 July – India's 25th nuclear power plant being built at Rawatbhata, Rajasthan.Newly formed National Green Tribunal conducts its first sitting.
Reserve Bank of India issues draft guidelines for new bank licences.
Nation celebrates Independence Day on 15 August.
Parliament passes sense of the house resolution on Lokpal bill.
Sustainable Competitiveness Report 2011 presented, Delhi is first.
6.8 earthquake in Sikkim, tremors across India on 18 September.
Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011 presented in lok sabha.
PM Manmohan Singh visits Dhaka on a landmark visit.
2011 Durand Cup
2011 Indian Federation Cup
1 September - Bhanwari Devi murder case
F1 2011 Race comes to India at the Buddh International Circuit, Noida.
7 billionth baby born on 31 October 2011, Nargis in Uttar Pradesh.
Saving Bank Interest rate decontrolled by RBI.
National Manufacturing Policy cleared by Cabinet.Planning Commission releases the second India Human Development Report 2011.
President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, visits India.
Chhattisgarh police superintendent Ankit Garg is accused of the torture of schoolteacher and alleged Naxalite Soni Sori.
Maoist leader Kishenji killed in encounter in West Bengal.
Companies Bill and Pension Bill cleared by Cabinet.
Indian representative elected to head the Joint Inspection Unit, the UN's only external oversight body.India ranks 134th on UN Human Development Index.Longest rail of India, Vivek Express, is flagged off.
Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh figures among the top 20 most powerful people on earth in the Forbes list.
More than 50 killed in fire accident at AMRI hospital, Kolkata.
14 December - More than 150 dies due to West Bengal hooch tragedy
Court directs 21 social networking websites to take off offensive content.
Lok Sabha passes Lokpal Bill, Hazare cancels fast due to lukewarm response at Mumbai.
30 December - Cyclone Thane makes landfall andclaims 33 lives in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.

Date unknown

M. Dutta Ray Trophy is abolished.

Sports

Athletics

3 January – National School Athletics Meet begin at Pune

[Cricket]

Domestic season

International

Test matches

India – South Africa 3 Test Series, December 2010 – January 2011.
India – West Indies 3 Test Series, June – July 2011.
India – England 4 Test Series, July – August 2011.
West Indies – India 3 Test Series, November 2011.
India – Australia 4 Test Series, December 2011 – January 2012.

One Day matches

India – South Africa 5 match Series, January 2011.
India wins ICC world cup 2011 defeating Sri Lanka in finals.
India – West Indies 5 match Series, June 2011.
India – England 5 match Series, September 2011.
England – India 5 match Series, October 2011.
West Indies – India 5 match Series, November – December 2011.

T-20 matches

West Indies v India at Port of Spain – 4 June 2011.
England v India at Manchester – 31 August 2011.
India v England at Kolkata – 29 October 2011.

Football

Senior

Youth

Deaths

January – April

2 January – Bali Ram Bhagat, 88, politician, member of the Indian National Congress, and former Lok Sabha speaker
10 January – Vivek Shauq, 47, actor, comedian, writer, and singer
17 January – Gita Dey, 79, Bengali actress
21 January – E. V. V. Satyanarayana, 54, film director, screenwriter and producer
24 January – Bhimsen Joshi, 88, Hindustani Classical vocalist
28 January – Sushil Kumar Dhara, 99, revolutionary in British India and a political leader after Indian Independence in 1947
3 February – Machan Varghese, 50, Malayalam film actor and mimicry artist
12 February – Vipindas, 72, cinematographer and director
19 February – Suresh Babu, 58, long jumper
20 February – Malaysia Vasudevan, 66, actor and playback singer
21 February
*Aranmula Ponnamma, 96, Malayalam film actress
*Premananda, 59, religious guru and monk who founded the Premananda ashram
23 February
*Mullapudi Venkata Ramana, 79, Telugu screenwriter and film producer
*Nirmala Srivastava, 87, founder and guru of Sahaja Yoga
24 February – Anant Pai, 81, educationalist and comics writer
1 March – Fateh Singh Rathore, 72, wildlife conservationist
3 March
*Goga Kapoor, 70, film actor
*Venkatraman Radhakrishnan, 81, space scientist and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
4 March – Arjun Singh, 80, politician
10 March – Baliram Kashyap, 74, politician
12 March – Kumar Indrajitsinhji, 73, cricketer
19 March – Navin Nischol, 65, actor
20 March – Bob Christo, Indian actor of Australian origin
1 April – Varkey Vithayathil, 83, cardinal and religious leader
3 April – Rafique Alam, 81, politician
5 April – Sujatha, 58, actress
12 April – Sachin Bhowmick, 80, Hindi film writer and director
17 April – Bhawani Singh, 79, titular Maharaja of Jaipur
22 April – Madhava Gudi, 72, Hindustani classical vocalist
24 April – Sathya Sai Baba, 84, guru, spiritual leader & educator
30 April – Dorjee Khandu, 56, politician, Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh

May – December

13 May – Badal Sarkar, 85, dramatist and theatre director
15 May – Mahendra Singh Tikait, 76, farmer leader and President of the Bharatiya Kisan Union
3 June – Bhajan Lal, 80, politician and three-time Chief Minister of Haryana
7 June – Nataraja Ramakrishna, 88, dance guru
9 June – M. F. Husain, 95, painter
11 June – Jyotirmoy Dey, 55, journalist, crime and investigations editor for Mid-Day, and an expert on the Mumbai underworld
14 June – Asad Ali Khan, 74, musician
18 June – John Perumattam, 89, Catholic hierarch
21 June
*Kothapalli Jayashankar, 76, educator and politician
*Suresh Tendulkar, 72, economist and former chief of the National Statistical Commission
29 June – K. D. Sethna, 106, poet, scholar, writer, philosopher, and cultural critic
2 July – Chaturanan Mishra, 86, politician and trade unionist
6 July – Mani Kaul, 66, film director
14 August – Shammi Kapoor, 79, actor
18 August – Johnson Master, 58, film score composer and music director
22 September – Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, 70, cricketer
10 October – Jagjit Singh, 70, ghazal singer, composer, musician
5 November – Bhupen Hazarika, 85, playback singer, lyricist, musician, poet, actor, filmmaker, and politician from Assam
9 November – Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-born American Nobel biochemist
27 November – Ustad Sultan Khan, 71, sarangi player and classical vocalist
4 December – Dev Anand, 88, actor, writer, director, and producer
25 December – Satyadev Dubey, 75, actor, playwright, screenwriter, and director
26 December – S. Bangarappa, 79, former Chief Minister of Karnataka

Major Public Holidays

26 January – Republic Day
20 February – Maha Shivaratri
8 March – Holi
4 April – Gudi Padwa
15 August – Independence Day
19 August – Pateti
21 August – Krishna Janmashtami
31 August – Eid ul-Fitr
1 September – Ganesh Chaturthi
11 September – Anant Chaturdashi
2 October – Gandhi Jayanti
6 October – Dassera
26 October – Diwali
7 November – Bakrid
10 November – Guru Nanak Jayanti
25 December – Christmas