Events in the year 2010 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents Photo Post Name President Pratibha Patil Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh Chief Justice K. G. Balakrishnan (till 12 May) S. H. Kapadia (starting 12 May)
Governors Post Name Andhra Pradesh E. S. L. Narasimhan Arunachal Pradesh Joginder Jaswant Singh Assam Janaki Ballabh Patnaik Bihar Devanand Konwar Chhattisgarh E. S. L. Narasimhan (until 23 January)Shekhar Dutt (starting 23 January) Goa Shivinder Singh Sidhu Gujarat Kamala Beniwal Haryana Jagannath Pahadia Himachal Pradesh Prabha Rau (until 23 January)Urmila Singh (starting 23 January) Jammu and Kashmir Narinder Nath Vohra Jharkhand Kateekal Sankaranarayanan (until 21 January)M. O. H. Farook (starting 22 January) Karnataka Hansraj Bhardwaj Kerala R. S. Gavai (until 7 September)M. O. H. Farook (starting 7 September) Madhya Pradesh Rameshwar Thakur (until 7 September)Ram Naresh Yadav (starting 7 September) Maharashtra S.C. Jamir (until 22 January)Kateekal Sankaranarayanan (starting 22 January) Manipur Gurbachan Jagat Meghalaya Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary Mizoram M. M. Lakhera (until 2 September)Vakkom Purushothaman (starting 2 September) Nagaland Nikhil Kumar Odisha Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare Punjab Sunith Francis Rodrigues (until 22 January)Shivraj Vishwanath Patil (starting 22 January) Rajasthan Prabha Rau (until 26 April)Shivraj Patil (starting 26 April) Sikkim Balmiki Prasad Singh Tamil Nadu Surjit Singh Barnala Tripura Dnyandeo Yashwantrao Patil Uttar Pradesh Banwari Lal Joshi Uttarakhand Margaret Alva West Bengal Devanand Konwar (until 23 January)M.K. Narayanan (starting 23 January)
Events National income - 76,344,721 million
January 2 January – First three Uttar Pradesh rail accidents: Three train accidents occur in Uttar Pradesh amid thick fog. Ten people died in the accidents and 45 others were injured. 9 January – 2009 attacks on Indian students in Australia: An Indian man is set on fire in Melbourne, Australia, in the latest in a series of attacks on Indian nationals in the country. 16 January – Fourth Uttar Pradesh rail accident: two express trains collide in thick fog in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Three people died in the accident and around a dozen were injured. 17 January – Fifth Uttar Pradesh rail accidents: A car hit by a train at an unmanned crossing in Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh. Two of the six people in the car died and four got injured. 22 January – Sixth Uttar Pradesh rail accidents: A goods train derailed near Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh on Friday, disrupting rail traffic in the region. No one was injured in the accident. 25 January – Environment ministers from the G4 bloc (IBSA Dialogue Forum & China) meet in New Delhi, India, to agree a common position ahead of future climate change talks. 30 January – 12 people drown and at least 20 other went missing after a boat accident in West Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh in India.
February 5 February – The last native of India's Andaman Islands fluent in the Aka-Bo language dies, rendering the language extinct. 8 February – At least 17 Indian soldiers are killed in an avalanche in Kashmir. 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. 15 February – Silda camp attack: A Naxalite attack on an army camp in West Bengal kills 24 Indian soldiers, with many more reported missing. 17 February – 2010 Jalaun district bus crash: At least 22 people are killed in a bus crash in Northern India.
March 3 March – Three are killed in Indian Navy air show crash in Hyderabad, India. 4 March – 2010 Pratapgarh stampede: At least 63 people die after a stampede at a Hindu temple in Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh. 12 March – Russia signs a nuclear reactor deal with India which will see it build 16 nuclear reactors in India. 23 March – A fire tears through at a combined residential and office building in Kolkata, India, killing 24 people, including two who leapt to their deaths. 27 March – India test fires two short range missiles, the Dhanush and Prithvi II. 30 March – Somali pirates hijack 8 Indian vessels abducting 120 sailors, biggest abduction count till date, off the coast of Kismayo.
April 1 April – The Indian government initiates The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act to provide free and compulsory education to all children aged between 6 and 14 years, making education a fundamental right for millions of children. 1 April – India launches its new 2011 biometric census, the largest census in the world. 3 April – At least 10 Indian security personnel are killed and three injured when Maoist guerrillas blow up a police bus in Odisha's Koraput district. 6 April – 2010 Dantewada ambush: At least 70 Indian soldiers are killed in an attack by Naxalites in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh. 13 April – 2010 Eastern Indian storm: At least 140 people were killed in eastern India after a powerful storm demolished thousands of homes in West Bengal. Nearly 500,000 people were left homeless or otherwise affected by the storm. 15 April – The maiden flight of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk.II, India's first launch with an indigenous cryogenic upper stage, ends in failure, resulting in the loss of the GSAT-4 satellite. 17 April – Twin bombs injure eight people outside M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore ahead of an IPL-3 league game between the Royal Challengers Bangalore and the Mumbai Indians. A third device is located outside. 21 April - 2010 Mirchpur caste violence: Jat villagers in Mirchpur riot against the Balmiki Dalit population, killing two and injuring 51. 27 April – India arrests a woman working at its embassy in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on charges of espionage. 29 April – 2010 Machil encounter: Three Kashmiri civilians are falsely killed by security personnel claimed to be Pakistani terrorists.
May
3 May – Ajmal Kasab, the only surviving terrorist involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, is found guilty of murder, conspiracy, and waging war against India. 6 May – Ajmal Kasab, the only surviving member of a group responsible for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, is sentenced to death. 7 May – May 2010 Kashmir skirmishes: 5 insurgents and 2 soldiers die in a gunbattle between islamic terrorists and Indian security forces in Kashmir. 7–9 May – India International Light Fair & India International Sign Show in Mumbai. 8 May – Naxalite rebels blow up a bullet-proof vehicle of the Central Reserve Police Force in the Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, killing seven officers. 10 May – Acharya Shri Mahashraman was declared the 11th Acharya of Jain Shwetambar Terapanth Sect 16 May – Maoist guerrillas kill six villagers in an alleged revenge attack in Chhattisgarh. 17 May – 2010 Dantewada bus bombing: Naxalite insurgents blow up a bus in India filled with police and paramilitaries. Fatalities reports range from 31 to 44, including several Special Police Officers (SPOs) and civilians. 19 May – 2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season: Cyclone Laila approaches landfall in southeastern India, having already caused at least ten deaths and prompting the evacuations of 10,000 people in Tamil Nadu. 21 May – A court restores the Indian Hockey Federation, two years after it was dissolved by the country's Olympic chiefs over bribery allegations and poor on-field results. 21 May – Six girls aged between eight and twelve years drown in the Rapti in Balrampur while bathing. 22 May – Air India Express Flight 812 overshoots the runway at Mangalore International Airport in India, killing 158 and leaving 8 survivors. 23 May – Clashes break out between Indian and Pakistani troops near the border in the disputed Kashmir region. 28 May – Gyaneshwari Express train derailment: At least 25 people are killed and 150 injured in India after a Mumbai train with 13 passenger coaches is derailed by an explosion on the tracks and collides with another train as it traveled through the Paschim Medinipur district, a communist terrorist stronghold in eastern India.
June 2 June – 2010 Indian heatwave: A heat wave strikes India and South Asia, reaching 53°C (127°F) and killing many hundreds of people. 7 June – The Magistrate court in Bhopal, India convicts eight people, one posthumously, for their role in the Bhopal disaster industrial catastrophe 25 years ago in 1984. June–September: 2010 Kashmir unrest: Violent protests erupt in Kashmir over the killing of three Kashmiri civilians by security forces claimed to be Pakistani terrorists. 17 June – Heavy rains claim 46 lives in Maharashtra. 23 June – 1 person is killed when a crane crashes at Chennai International Airport, Chennai. 25 June – 17 people are killed and 25 others injured when an overcrowded bus collided head-on with a speeding truck near Chenaki More, about 30 km from Patna, India. 26 June – Four people are killed and five wounded in violence in Indian-administered Kashmir's Sopore area. 29 June – 2010 Maoist attack in Narayanpur: At least 26 policemen are killed in a Maoist attack in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh.
July 4 July - Assault on Prof. T. J. Joseph a college teacher in Kerala by Popular Front of India members alleging Blasphemy. 5 July – A nationwide strike takes place in India in protest at a recent rise in fuel prices. 8 July – A bomb rips through the engine and coach of a passenger train in Assam, killing one person. 13 July – One death and three injuries result from a stampede during pulling of Ratha Yatra chariots in Puri, India. 13 July – The Supreme Court of India tentatively approves the Tamil Nadu government's new quota law, providing 69% of employment in educational institutions to scheduled castes and tribes and other backward classes. 14 July – Senior Indian Army officer Major AK Thinge is killed in battle in Kashmir. 15 July – The Indian rupee sign officially revealed by the Finance Ministry of India, and the Indian government said that it would try to adopt the sign by the end of 2010. 19 July – Two trains collide in the Birbhum district of West Bengal with at least 50 people feared dead. 20 July – Former Indian junior diplomat Madhuri Gupta is charged under the Official Secrets Act with spying for Pakistan. 21 July – Unidentified gunmen on motorcycles fatally shoot Indian civil rights campaigner and environmentalist Amit Jethwa in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. 23 July – The Indian Government unveils a solar power touch-screen laptop, cheaper than America's iPad, expected to be on sale next year.
August 1 August – Six people die in the Indian province of Jammu and Kashmir after a third day of clashes between security forces and Kashmiri separatists. 4 August – About 70 Indian police personnel are reported missing in Chhattisgarh forests amid a major engagement with Maoist guerrillas; they are later found. No casualties have been reported. 6 August – 2010 Leh floods: Flash floods in the Ladakh region of India's Jammu and Kashmir state kill at least 113 people and leave many others missing. 7 August – 2010 Mumbai oil spill: An oil spill stretching at least two miles long occurs in the Arabian Sea offshore Mumbai, India, after a vessel from Panama collides with another vessel from St. Kitts. The Panamanian ship was carrying 2,662 tons of oil, 283 tons of diesel and 88,040 liters of lube oil when it became grounded and started to leak.