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Events in the year2009 in the Republic of India.

Photo	Post	Name
	President	Pratibha Patil
	Vice President	Mohammad Hamid Ansari
	Prime Minister	Dr. Manmohan Singh
	Chief Justice	K. G. Balakrishnan

• National income -₹63,664,065 million

• 1 January –National Investigation Agency (NIA) Bill and theUnlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment (UAPA) Bill, the new anti-terror regime came into force with PresidentPratibha 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 inGuwahati,Assam.^[1]
• 1 January –Indian Government decides to place officers in the rank oflieutenant 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 ofIndian Armed Forces personnel over anomalies inpay structures.(The Hindu)
• 2 January –Indian Government in tandem with theReserve Bank of India (RBI) announces the much-awaited secondStimulus Package aimed at reversing theeconomic slowdown.(The Hindu)
• 2 January –Kapil Dev,Sunil Gavaskar andBishan 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 – ThePeoples Democratic Party (PDP) formally dissociates itself from theUnited Progressive Alliance (UPA).(The Hindu)
• 5 January –Indian Government summons Pakistan High Commissioner Shahid Malik to hand over evidence about Pakistan's involvement in theMumbai 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 ofSatyam Computer Services, confessed that he has been creating fake invoices and that the company cash was all fictitious. TheBSE crashed 749 points, wiping out about $23bn of investors wealth.(The Times of India)
• 24 January -Mangalore pub attacked byHindutva group headed byPramod Muthalik.^[2]
• 13 February –2009 Orissa train derailment: Apassenger train derails inBhubaneswar,Orissa, killing at least 15 people and injuring 150 others.^[3]
• 23 February – India approves a£1.7-billionplan to launch its firstastronauts intoouter space by 2015.^[4]
• 25 February – A bus crashes in Indian-administeredKashmir, killing 35 people and injuring 15.^[5]
• 25 February – Former IndianCommunications MinisterSukh Ram is jailed for three years forcorruption.^[6]
• 24 March – Sixteenmilitants and eight IndianArmy soldiers arekilled inJammu and Kashmir'sKupwara district.^[7]
• 1 April – No additional charges on withdrawing money from an ATM of a different bank.^[8]
• April–May –General Elections held.
• 16 April – TheNaxalite movementkills 17 people as India'sgeneral election begins.^[9]
• 20 April – India'sSpace Research Organization launches itsRISAT-2reconnaissance satellite.^[10]
• 19 May –Manmohan Singh of theNational Congress isre-elected asPrime Minister of India.^[11]
• 21 May – TheCommunist Partykills 16police officers nearNagpur,Maharashtra.^[12]
• 25 May –Cyclone Aila ravages the east coast killing at least 149^[13][14][15] and hundreds others were left homeless as torrential rains led to flooding.
• 3 June – IndianMember of ParliamentMeira Kumar becomes the first femaleSpeaker of theHouse of the People.
• 4 June – Two hundred thousand people attend the funeral ofDera Sach Khand leaderSant Ramanand Dass inJalandhar,Punjab, India.^[16][17]
• 17 June – Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets Pakistani PresidentAsif Ali Zardari.^[18]
• 20 June – Indian troops enterLalgarh, aMaoist stronghold inWest Bengal, claiming a partial victory.

• 2 July – A148-year-old colonial law banninghomosexual intercourse in India is overturned by theHigh Court in New Delhi.^[19][20]
• 3 July – Three people die and over a dozen are injured in riots after a dead pig is thrown into an under-constructionmosque inMysore, India.^[21]

• 5 July – At least eight people die in blasts at two explosives factories inMadhya Pradesh.^[22]
• 9 July – The death toll from a mass poisoning involving home-brewedalcohol inGujarat rises to 71.^[23]
• 12 July – Five people are killed and several injured in India after a bridge being constructed for theDelhi Metro collapses.^[24]
• 20 July –Ajmal Kasab, the only surviving gunman in the2008 Mumbai attacks, pleads guilty in an Indian court, ending months of denials.^[25]
• 20 July – India and the United States sign a defence pact.^[26]
• 26 July – India launches its firstnuclear submarine, theINSArihant.^[27]
• 6 August – An Indian courtsentences to death three people for carrying outbombings that killed more than 50 people inMumbai in 2003.^[28][29]
• 11 August –2009 Andaman Islands earthquake: A 7.5 magnitude earthquake occurs in theAndaman Islands of India. No casualties or injuries were reported, although there were complaints about minor damages to buildings.
• 24 August – At least 200 children are killed and around 900 hospitalised byJapanese encephalitis inUttar Pradesh.^[30]
• 1 September – An outbreak ofdiarrhoea inOrissa, kills at least 26 people and hospitalises 237.^[31]
• 2 September –2009 Andhra Pradesh helicopter crash: ABell 430 helicopter crashes during a flight in southern India. Fatalities includedY. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.^[32][33]
• 10 September – At least five girls are killed and 30 other students injured in a stampede at a state-run school in the Indian capital,New Delhi.^[34][35]

• 14 September –Chandrayaan-1, India's first uncrewedlunar probe, discovers large amounts of water on theMoon.^[36][37]
• 30 September –2009 Thekkady boat disaster: the double-decker passenger boatJalakanyaka 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 theDiwali celebrations.^[38][39]
• 19 October –VA Shiva Ayyadurai publishes report allegingCSIR corruption.^[40][41][42]
• 30 October –Indian Oil Fire in Jaipur: A large fire at anoil depot on the outskirts ofJaipur,Rajasthan, leaving six people dead and around 135 injured.^[43]
• 6 November – At least 34 people are killed and 29 are injured when a bus falls into a gorge inHimachal Pradesh.^[44]
• 22 November – At least seven people are killed and more than 55 injured in a bombing inAssam, northeastern India.^[45]
• 24 November – Prime MinisterManmohan Singh had the first official state visit to the White House during the administration of U.S. PresidentBarack Obama. Several discussions took place during the meeting, including on trade and nuclear power.
• 10 December – India announces it is to create a newstate,Telangana, out ofAndhra Pradesh.^[46]
• 13 December – India successfully test fires its nuclear-capable"Dhanush" missile off theOrissa coast.^[47]

• 15 January –Tapan Sinha, 84, film director (born 1924)
• 27 January –R. Venkataraman, 98, the 8thPresident of India (born 1910)
• 31 January –Nagesh, actor (born 1933)^[48]
• 9 April –Shakti Samanta, 83, film director and producer (born 1926)

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  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 –
  • Rajan P. Dev, 56, film actor in South Indian films (born 1953)
  • Gayatri Devi, 90, Rajmata of Jaipur (born 1919)
• 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)

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