3 January: President inaugurates new SHAR Mission Control Centre.[1]
9 January: 10th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas kicks off in Jaipur.[2] Chief guest – Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago.
11 January: 42% of Indian children are malnourished – Hunger and Malnutrition (Hungama) report.
13 January: 5 million students perform Surya namaskar in Madhya Pradesh.
19 January: Delhi High Court grants bail for Suresh Kalmadi in Commonwealth Games Scam.
26 January: Nation displays military might on 63rd Republic Day; Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, chief guest of India's 63rd Republic Day celebrations.
February[]
2 February: Supreme Court cancels all 122 licences given by A Raja in 2G spectrum case.[3]
5 February: Special CBI court dismisses Subramanian Swamy's petition to prosecute Home Minister P.Chidambaram in 2G spectrum case.[4]
8 February: Three Bharatiya Janata Party ministers caught watching objectionable video clip in Karnataka Assembly, Resign.[5]
11 February: Army Chief V.K. Singh withdraws petition from Supreme Court in age-controversy.;[6] Advanced Interceptor missile is successfully test-fired.[7]
14 February: Blast at an Israeli embassy car in Delhi.[8]
16 February: Two fishermen, mistaken for pirates, shot dead off Kerala coast by Italian ship.[9]
20 February: Six killed in stampede at Bhavnath temple in Junagadh district, Gujarat.[10]
March[]
3 March: State Assembly election process comes to an end in Uttar Pradesh and Goa.[11]
6 March: Election results for five state assemblies are announced; Samajwadi Party (Uttar Pradesh), Bhartiya Janata Party (Goa), Indian National Congress (Manipur & Uttarakhand), Shiromani Akali Dal-BJP combine (Punjab) emerge winners.[12]
14 March: Irom Sharmila fast against AFSPA goes on for 11 years. Indian Rail Budget 2012–13 presented by Rail Minister Dinesh Trivedi.
16 March: Union Budget for 2012–13 is presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee.[13]
18 March: Dinesh Trivedi steps down as Railways Minister after pressure from TMC.[14]
21 March: Soumitra Chatterjee selected for Dadasaheb Phalke award for 2011.
22 March: India votes against Sri Lanka on the resolution to 'credibly investigate' allegations of violations during the war against Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in 2009 in the United Nations Human Rights Council.[15]
29 March: India hosts 4th BRICS summit at New Delhi. Heads of state of Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa are hosted by India.[16]
April[]
8 April: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari visits India on a personal visit to Ajmer Sharif.[17]
11 April: A pair of great earthquakes occur in the Wharton Basin west of Sumatra in Indonesia. The maximum Mercalli intensity of this strike-slipdoublet earthquake was VII (Very strong). Ten were killed, twelve were injured, and a non-destructive tsunami was observed on the island of Nias.
12 April: 18 get life term for Ode village massacre during 2002 Gujarat riots.[18]
17 April: RBI cuts repo rate by 50 basis points for the first time in three years.[19]
18 April: Major fire in the signalling system at Kurla brings Central line and Harbour line of Mumbai Suburban Railway to a standstill and two commuters lose their lives after falling off an overcrowded local train.[20] The loss was expected to be ₹170 million (US$2.4 million) to the Central Railway.[21]
19 April: India successfully test fires 5000 km range Agni-VICBM.[22]
21 April: Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon kidnapped by Maoists in Chhattisgarh.[23]
24 April: Two NRI kids return to Kolkata after long legal struggle with CWS Norway.[24]
26 April: Sachin Tendulkar, Rekha and Anu Aga nominated to Rajya Sabha by the President of India.[25] Abducted BJD MLA Jhina Hikaka released by maoists after 33 days of captivity.[26]
May[]
1 May: More than 100 feared dead after a ferry capsizes in Brahmaputra river, Assam.[27]
3 May: Maoists released the Sukma Collector Alex Paul Menon after 12 days of hostage.[28]
7 May: Finance Minister postpones GAAR (General Anti Avoidance Rules) implementation till 2013.[29]
8 May: Over 100 Air India pilots go on strike.[30]
9 May: Centre government decides to withdraw 2Greview petition at the Supreme Court.[31]
13 May: Indian parliament celebrates 60th anniversary.[32]
15 May: A. Raja, the prime accused in 2G scam, gets bail.[33]
23 May: Congress led UPA-II government completes 3 years in office.[34]
27 May: Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) win the fifth edition of the Indian Premier League[35]
14 July: Hamid Ansari chosen as UPA nominee for vice-president.[50]
20 July: Assam Violence breaks out in Kokrajhar district and adjoining areas.
22 July: Pranab Mukherjee is elected as India's 13th president.[51]
25 July: Pranab Mukherjee takes over the post of President of India.
27 July: London Olympics 2012 from 27 July to 12 Aug.
August[]
8 August: Incident of violence against North-Eastern people in Pune as repercussion of Assam Violence following which exodus of thousands of North-Eastern people from Bangalore due to a rumour circulated among them through SMS & MMS that they would be attacked after Eid.
10 August: Hamid Ansari again elected as consecutively second vice-president of India after Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.
12 August: London Olympics, This was India's most successful Olympics in terms of total medal tally, having won a total of 6 medals (0 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze).
14 August: Union Minister for Science And Technology and Ex Chief Minister Of MaharashtraVilasrao Deshmukh passes away.
17 August: Bulk SMS & MMS banned in India for 15 days to prevent a rumour of ensuing violence against NE people by Muslim fundamentalists.
September[]
19 September: CBI makes first arrests in Assam Violence cases.[52] Mohammed Hashem Ali, Mohammed Adom Ali Sheikh, Mohammed Hashim Ali Rehman, Mohammed Qurban Ali Sheikh, Mohammed Imran Hussain were arrested after detailed questioning by agency sleuths.
October[]
1st: International Bio-diversity conference held at Hyderabad.
20 October: A low-cost airlines, Kingfisher Airlines was suspend by all without license operation.[citation needed]
November[]
21 November: Ajmal Kasab hanged on account of the 2008 Mumbai Attacks.
December[]
16 December: A female physiotherapy student was beaten and gang raped in Delhi, when the victim and a male companion boarded a bus in South Delhi in the evening, after watching a movie. The incident created huge outrage across the country and forced the Government of India to react and work on safety for women. Public protests took place in Delhi, where thousands of protesters clashed with police, and other force units.
20 December: Narendra Modi (Chief Minister of Gujarat) wins third consecutive assembly election. Virbahdra Singh wins election in Himachal Pradesh.[53]
Cinema[]
Bengali[]
Main article: Bengali films of 2012
Bollywood[]
Main article: Bollywood films of 2012
Malayalam[]
Main article: Malayalam films of 2012
Marathi[]
Main article: Marathi films of 2012
Ollywood[]
Main article: Ollywood films of 2012
Sandwood[]
Main article: Kannada films of 2012
Tamil[]
Main article: Tamil films of 2012
Tollywood[]
Main article: Telugu films of 2012
Sports[]
Main article: 2012 in Indian sports
January[]
23 January: Rajasthan defeats Tamil Nadu to win the 78th Ranji Trophy.[54]
17 June: Tejaswini Mule won Silver medal at International Junior Shooting Championship.[72]
17 June: Saina Nehwal beats China's Xuerui Li to win her Third Indonesian Open Title.[73]
21 June: Deepika Kumari becomes World No. 1 archer.[74]
July[]
9 July: Leander Paes and Elena Vesnina end runners-up at Wimbledon.[75]
August[]
27 July – 12 August: India at the 2012 Summer Olympics - Indian athletes win 6 Olympic medals.
18 August - VVS Laxman announces retirement from International Cricket.[76]
October[]
28 October: Second Indian Grand Prix at Buddh International Circuit, Greater Noida.
November[]
England cricket team tours India for 4 test matches 5 ODI and 2 T20 matches.
December[]
Sachin Tendulkar announced his retirement from ODIs on 23 December. He played 463 ODIs in all, scoring 18,426 runs, which includes 49 centuries and 96 half centuries.[77]
Deaths[]
January – August[]
16 January – Homai Vyarawalla, 98, India's first woman photojournalist.[78]
19 January – Anthony Gonsalves, 84, Bollywood music composer[79]
3 February – Raj Kanwar, 50, Bollywood film director, producer.[80]
7 March – Ravi (music director), 86, music director in Hindi and Malayalam films
9 March – Joy Mukherjee, 73, actor and director in Hindi films
15 March – Falak, 2, baby murder victim (born 2010)
28 March – T. Damodaran, 77, screenwriter in Malayalam cinema