2017 in India

Incumbents

Government of India

• President of India: Pranab Mukherjee, Ram Nath Kovind
• Vice-President of India: Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Venkaiah Naidu
• Prime Minister of India: Narendra Modi
• Chief Justice of India: T. S. Thakur, Jagdish Singh Khehar, Dipak Misra
• Speaker of the Lok Sabha: Sumitra Mahajan

  State Governments

Elections

President

• Presidential elections were held on 17 July 2017 and results were declared on 20 July. Ram Nath Kovind has been elected the President of India..

  Vice president

• Vice presidential elections were held on 5 August 2017. Venkaiah Naidu has been elected the Vice President of India.

  Rajya Sabha Elections

State

Events

• National income - 170,900,424 million

  January - March

• January 2 - In a landmark 4:3 judgement, the Supreme Court of India held that an appeal for votes during elections on the basis of religion, caste, race, community or language, even that of the electorate, will amount to a ‘corrupt practice’ and call for disqualification of the candidate in any election
• January 2 - Nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile Agni-IV Missile tested successfully off the coast of Odisha.
• January 7 – Heavy snowfall in Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand disrupt normal life. Many places record heaviest snowfall in over two decades.
• January 14 – 25 people are dead after a boat capsizes on river Ganga in Patna during Makar Sankranti celebrations.
• January 25 - United Arab Emirates delegation led by Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, crown prince of Abu Dhabi visited India to sign 14 agreements including strategic partnership, defense industries, transport, cyber security and shipping.
• January 25 - Avalanches hit Jammu and Kashmir. 20 persons including 15 military personnel are found dead.
• January 26 – Republic Day is celebrated across the country. Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan attends the parade in New Delhi as the chief guest.
• January – 2017 pro-Jallikattu protests Hundreds joined and staged protest at Marina beach, Chennai and all over Tamil Nadu in support of conducting Jallikattu.
• February 1 – The annual budget for the union government is presented in the Lok Sabha by finance minister Arun Jaitley. The 92-year-old railway budget is discontinued and merged into the general budget.
• February 6 – One person is dead after a 5.8 magnitude earthquake hit Uttrakhand, North India.
• February 15 – Indian Space Research Organisation launches PSLV-C37, sending104 satellites from seven countries into orbit, the highest ever in the history of space exploration.
• February 17 – South Indian actress Bhavana assaulted by a group of criminals at Kochi allegedly under the instruction of Malayalam cinema actor Dileep.
• 6 March – Indian Navy's oldest serving aircraft carrier, INS Viraat is decommissioned after 30 years of service.
• 7 March – Nine people are injured after a planned low intensity explosion in Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train by ISIS. Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad neutralises one terrorist in Lucknow, 8 suspects arrested from Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
• 11 March – Election results of elections in five states declared by Election Commission.
• 11 March – 12 CRPF personnel killed in Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh.
• 14 March – Manohar Parrikar took oath as the new Chief Minister of Goa.
• 15 March – N. Biren Singh took oath as the new Chief Minister of Manipur.
• 16 March – Amarinder Singh took oath as the new Chief Minister of Punjab.
• 18 March – Yogi Adityanath took oath as the new Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
• 26 March – Lucknow Metro North–south line is expected to be opened.

  April - June

• 1 April – the Gujarat Assembly amended a bill further extending the punishment and fine for Cattle slaughter in India. The punishment was increased to a minimum of 10 years and a maximum of 'life term of a 14 years', and the fine was enhanced to the range of ₹1 lakh – ₹5 lakh.
• 9 April - Kashmir human shield incident
• 4 June - 2017 Unnao rape case.
• 6 June - Uttar Pradesh's Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath directed the state police to take action against cow slaughter and cattle smuggling under the National Security Act and the Gangster Act.
• 9 June – India became full member of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
• 16 June – Gorkhaland agitations in Darjeeling, West Bengal.
• 17 June – Kochi Metro inaugurated.
• 19 June – BJP announced Ramanath Kovind as its candidate for the presidential election
• 20 June – Presidential election.
• 23 June – ISRO puts 31 satellites including 29 satellites from others countries through PSLV C-38 successfully.

  July

• 1 July – Goods and Services Tax Act came into force in India. The India's biggest tax reform in 70 years of independence, was launched at midnight of 30 June 2017. It replaced many Indirect taxes.
• 10 July – 7 pilgrims killed, 16 injured during Amarnath Yatra in terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag.
• 11 July – Major landslide occurred in Arunachal Pradesh. 14 people died while many injured
• 12 July – 3 terrorist shot dead in Badgam
• 15 July – 3 terrorist of Jaish e Mohammad shot dead in Tral of Jammu & Kashmir by Indian military.
• 16 July – 16 Amarnath devotees killed in a bus accident in Jammu and Kashmir.
• 17 July – Indian presidential elections were held.
• July – Heavy rain due to Monsoon raised level of most of the rivers causing flood in many states. More than 200 died.
• 17 July – BJP led NDA declared Venkai Naidu as their candidate for vice-presidential election.
• 18 July – Congress protests against Madhur Bhandarkar's film Indu Sarkar based on 1975 emergency in India.
• 20 July – Ram Nath Kovind won the 2017 Indian presidential election with 65.65% votes against Meira Kumar, the presidential candidate of the opposition.
• 25 July – Ram Nath Kovind took oath as 14th President of India.
• 26 July – Nitish Kumar resigns as Chief Minister of Bihar, breaking the coalition with RJD & Indian National Congress.
• 27 July – NDA led government comes in Bihar. Nitish Kumar and Sushil Modi took oath as chief minister and vice chief minister of Bihar respectively.
• July – 2017 Gujarat flood resulting in more than 250 deaths.
• July – 2017 West Bengal floods; 70 died.

  August

• 1 August – Lashkar-E-Taiba militant Abu Dujana Shot dead by Indian Army In Jammu and Kashmir
• 4 August – Indian National Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi's car attacked by mob in Banaskatha in Gujarat
• File:Venkaiah Naidu.png|thumb|170x170px|Venkaiah Naidu was elected as the Vice President of India.5 August – Venkaiah Naidu won the Indian vice-presidential election with 67.89% votes against Gopalkrishna Gandhi the opposition candidate.
• 6 August – Bangladeshi terrorist arrested by Uttar Pradesh Police in Muzaffarnagar
• 7 August – Kerala High Court removed lifetime ban on cricketer S. Sreesanth
• 9 August – Maratha Kranti Morcha starts in Mumbai for the demand for reservation for the Maratha community in the state of Maharashtra
• 11 August – Venkaiah Naidu took oath as 13th Vice President of India.
• 13 August – 46 died in a landslide in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh.
• 15 August – Nation celebrated 70th Independence Day.
• August – August 2017 Nepal and India floods; more than 450 died.
• 19 August – Kalinga Utkal Express from Puri to Haridwar derailed in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh. 23 died, more than 100 injured.
• 22 August – Supreme Court bans instant triple talaq calling it unconstitutional. Instructed central government to pass law in parliament for triple talaq.
• 24 August - Reserve Bank of India introduces Rs. 200 bank notes in India to plug the gap in currency system by abiding to Renard series.
• 25 August – Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh conviction in rape case leads to violence by Dera Sacha Sauda's followers in Punjab, Haryana. 38 died, 300 injured. Army out, curfew clamped in Punjab, Panchkula, Chandigarh.
• 28 August – CBI special court sentenced Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh 20 years jail in a verdict of a rape case.
• 28 August – Dipak Misra sworn in as 45th chief justice of India.
• 28 August – India China agree to end border stand off in Doklam as both nations withdrew their armies from the disputed region.
• 28 August – Election commission declared by election result of four legislative seats of three states. AAP won Delhi's Bawana, BJP won Goa's Panji and Valpoi, TDP won Nandyal in Andhra Pradesh.
• 29 August – Nagpur–Mumbai Duronto Express derailed near Asangoan in the outskirts of Mumbai; No casualties reported.
• 29 August – Flood in the city of Mumbai. Lifeline came to still. The railway malfunctioned due to heavy rains. Mumbai-Pune Express highway closed.
• 30 August – 290 children have died at BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur due to lack of oxygen.
• 31 August - A three-story building collapsed in Mumbai, 32 died.
• 31 August - Switzerland president Doris Leuthard visited India for a bilateral talk.
• 31 August - ISRO launch of navigation satellite IRNSS 1H failed after heat shield does not detach.

  September

• 1 September – Union Skill Development Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Minister of State for Human Resource Development Mahendra Nath Pandey resigned ahead of a cabinet reshuffle.
• 1 September - Suicide of S. Anitha.
• 3 September -
• * Cabinet expansion conducted in Rashtrapati Bhavan, 9 new ministers took the oath. Nirmala Sitaraman and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi got promoted to Cabinet Ministers.
• * Nirmala Sitharaman became defense minister of India.
• 5 September -
• * Narendra Modi on visit of China for 9th BRICS Summit and Myanmar for bilateral talk.
• * Lucknow Metro inaugurated.
• * Gauri Lankesh, senior journalist shot dead in Bangalore.
• 7 September – A goods train derailed near Khandala in Maharashtra.
• 11–12 September – Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko visited India for bilateral talk, signed 10 agreement including defense.
• 13–14 September – Japan prime minister Shinzo Abe visited Ahmadabad for bilateral talk, signed many agreement including Bullet Train project in India.
• 29 September – 22 killed, many injured when a stampede occurred on the Lower Parel and Prabhadevi stations in Mumbai