সময় কাল : স্বাধীনতার পরবর্তী সময় | Timeline : Post Independence |

সময় কাল : স্বাধীনতার পরবর্তী সময় | Timeline : Post Independence | 

• 15 Aug, 1947 - 26 Jan, 1950: Dominion of India
• Lord Mountbatten as Governor General
• India gains independence
• India Pakistan war
• ​Hari Singh signs Instrument of Accession
• Jawaharlal Nehru chosen as PM
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• 1948
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• C Rajagopalachari as Governor General
• Mahatma Gandhi assassinated
• Junagarh accedes to India
• UNSC Resolution on Kashmir
• Hyderabad integrated into India
• Hind Mazdoor Sabha formed
• Industrial Policy announced
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• 1949
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• Reserve Bank of India nationalized
• Constitution adopted by Constituent Assembly
• Article 370 becomes part of Indian Constitution
• CRP becomes Central Reserve Police Force
• ​United Trade Union Congress formed
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• 1950  
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• India becomes a Republic
• Rajendra Prasad becomes 1st President
• India - Nepal Peace & Friendship Treaty
• Nehru - Liaquat (Delhi) Agreement
• Supreme Court of India set up
• Planning Commission set up
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• 1951 
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• 1st Five Year Plan
• Bharatiya Jan Sangh formed
• Constitution amended for the first time
• First Asian Games, New Delhi
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• 1952
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• 1st General Elections (1951-52)
• Jawaharlal Nehru continues as PM
• Potti Sriramulu dies
• National Development Council set up
• Community Development Program launched
• Family planning launched
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• 1953
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• Sheikh Abdullah imprisoned
• Civil aviation nationalized
• Andhra Pradesh is 1st state based on language
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• 1954
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• Pondicherry merges with India
• India - China Agreement on Tibet​
• Constitution (Application to J & K) Order [Article 35A]
• J&K's accession to India ratified
• Panchsheel agreement between India & China
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• 1955
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• Imperial Bank nationalized to create SBI
• Hindu Marriage Act
• Protection of Civil Rights Act
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• 1956
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• 2nd Five Year Plan
• States Reorganization Act
• The Constitution (7th Amendment) Act
• Industrial Policy Resolution
• Life insurance nationalized; LIC set up
• J&K approves its own Constitution
• Dr Ambedkar converts to Buddhism
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• 1957
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• 2nd General Elections
• Jawaharlal Nehru continues as PM
• EMS Namboodiripad (CPI) is CM of Kerala
• Decimal system of coinage introduced
• National calendar based on Saka Era adopted
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• 1958
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• Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act
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• 1959
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• Television introduced in India
• The 14th Dalai Lama escapes to India
• Panchayati Raj launched in Rajasthan
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• 1960
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• Indus Waters Treaty
• Bombay split into Maharashtra & Gujarat
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• 1961
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• 3rd Five Year Plan
• Goa becomes part of India
• Non Aligned Movement founded
• Dowry (Prohibition) Act​
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• 1962
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• 3rd General Elections
• S Radhakrishnan becomes President
• Jawaharlal Nehru continues as PM
• India China war
• Indo Tibetan Border Police formed
• Indo French agreement on Pondicherry
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• 1963
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• ​Central Bureau of Investigation set up
• Sashastra Seema Bal formed
• Official Languages Act
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• 1964
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• Death of PM Jawaharlal Nehru
• Gulzarilal Nanda is acting PM
• Lal Bahadur Shastri becomes PM
• Central Vigilance Commission formed
• Communist Party of India splits
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• 1965
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• India Pakistan war
• Border Security Force formed
• Green Revolution
• Daily TV transmission
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• 1966
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• Plan Holiday
• Tashkent Agreement
• Lal Bahadur Shastri dies in Tashkent
• Gulzarilal Nanda is acting PM
• Indira Gandhi becomes PM
• Devaluation of Indian Rupee
• Punjab divided into Punjab, Haryana & Himachal
• First Administrative Reforms Commission
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• 1967
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• 4th General Elections
• Zakir Husain becomes President of India
• Indira Gandhi continues as PM
• Beginnings of Naxalite Movement
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• 1968
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• 3 Language Formula (Official Language Resolution)
• Gunnar Myrdal's concept of "soft state"
• Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) created
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• 1969
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• 4th Five Year Plan
• Death of President Zakir Husain
• VV Giri becomes acting President; resigns
• M Hidayatullah becomes acting President
• VV Giri elected President
• Nationalization of banks
• MRTP Act comes into force
• ​ISRO founded
• Gujarat communal riots
• Central Industrial Security Force formed
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• 1970
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• Meghalaya becomes autonomous within Assam
• ​Industrial Licensing Policy comes into force
• Centre of Indian Trade Unions formed
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• 1971
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• 5th General Elections
• Indira Gandhi re-elected PM
• 20 year Treaty with the Soviet Union
• India Pakistan war & liberation of Bangladesh
• NE Areas (Reorganization) Act
• Rupee pegged to Pound Sterling
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• 1972
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• India Pakistan Simla Agreement
• Indo-Pak Line of Control formally established
• NEFA renamed as Arunachal Pradesh (UT)
• Wildlife (Protection) Act
• General insurance nationalized
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• 1973
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• Basic Structure Doctrine laid down
• Code of Criminal Procedure
• Sam Manekshaw is first Field Marshal
• Coal mines nationalized
• Oil companies nationalized
• Foreign Exchange (Regulation) Act
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• 1974
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• 5th Five Year Plan
• Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed becomes President
• Nuclear test at Pokhran in Jaisalmer
• Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act
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• 1975
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• Allahabad HC holds Mrs Gandhi's election illegal
• The Constitution (39th Amendment) Act
• National Emergency imposed
• Anti-emergency movement of Jaiprakash Narayan
• Sikkim becomes a State in the Indian Union
• Aryabhata goes into orbit
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• 1976
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• Bonded labour abolished
• The Constitution (42nd Amendment) Act
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• 1977
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• 6th General Elections​
• Death of President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
• BD Jatti becomes acting President
• N Sanjiva Reddy becomes President
• Emergency ends
• ​Morarji Desai becomes PM
• AB Vajpayee addresses UNGA in Hindi
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• 1978
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• Rolling Plans
• Demonetization of Rs 1000, 5000, 10000 notes
• Raj Krishna coins term "Hindu Rate of Growth"
• The Constitution (44th Amendment) Act
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• 1979
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• Mother Teresa wins Nobel Peace Prize
• Janata Government falls
• Morarji Desai resigns as PM
• Charan Singh becomes PM
• Morvi Dam disaster, Gujarat
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• 1980
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• 7th General Elections
• 6th Five Year Plan
• Charan Singh resigns as PM
• Indira Gandhi back as PM
• Six more banks nationalized​
• ​Formation of Bharatiya Janata Party
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• 1981
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• Air (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act
• ​First Indian Antarctic Expedition
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• 1982
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• Giani Zail Singh becomes President
• Mumbai Textile Mills Strike led by Datta Samant
• Asian Games in New Delhi
• Colour TV Transmission
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• 1983
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• The Nellie Massacre in Assam

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• 1984
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• 8th General Elections
• Operation Blue Star
• Indira Gandhi's assassination
• Rajiv Gandhi becomes PM
• Widespread anti Sikh riots
• Bhopal gas tragedy
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• 1985
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• 8th General Elections (Assam & Punjab)
• 7th Five Year Plan
• SAARC founded
• Air India Kanishka (AI 182) bombing
• Anti Defection Law (52nd Amendment)
• Shah Bano judgment by SC
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• 1986
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• The term 'BIMARU' coined by Ashish Bose​
• Act passed to negate Shah Bano judgment
• Environment (Protection) Act
• The GNLF Gorkhaland stir in Darjeeling
• Mizoram Peace Accord
• National Security Guard formed
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• 1987
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• R Venkataraman becomes President
• Deployment of IPKF in Sri Lanka
• Indo-Sri Lanka Accord signed
• Arunachal Pradesh becomes a State
• Last recorded case of Sati (Roop Kanwar)
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• 1988
• Voting age lowered to 18 from 21
• SEBI set up
• Prevention of Corruption Act
• RS Sarkaria Commission Report
• Indian Army's action in Maldives
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• 1989
• 9th General Elections
• VP Singh becomes PM
• SCs and STs (Prevention of Atrocities) Act
• Bhagalpur communal riots
• Outbreak of militancy in Kashmir
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• 1990
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• Annual Plans
• Government accepts Mandal Commission report
• VP Singh resigns as PM
• Chandra Shekhar becomes PM
• Inter State Council set up
• LK Advani begins Rath Yatra to Ayodhya
• Formation of Cauvery Tribunal
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• 1991
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• 10th General Elections
• Rajiv Gandhi assassinated
• PV Narsimha Rao becomes PM
• Balance of Payments crisis
• Economic Liberalization & Reforms​
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• 1992
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• 10th General Elections (Punjab)
• 8th Five Year Plan
• SD Sharma becomes President of India
• Demolition of Babri Mosque at Ayodhya
• Panchayats & ULBs get Constitutional status
• SEBI given statutory powers​
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• 1993
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• National Human Rights Commission set up
• Serial bomb blasts in Mumbai
• OBC reservations become operative
• Maharashtra (Latur) earthquake
• India-China LAC recognized
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• 1994
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• Rupee made convertible on current account
• Telecom Policy to open up telecom sector
• Prohibition of Sex Selection Act (PC-PNDT Act)
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• 1995
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• Cell phone services begin in Calcutta
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• 1996
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• 11th General Elections
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee becomes PM for 13 days
• HD Devegowda becomes PM
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• 1997
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• ​9th Five Year Plan
• KR Narayanan becomes President
• HD Devegowda resigns as PM
• IK Gujral becomes PM​
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• 1998
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• 12th General Elections
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee becomes PM
• Amartya Sen wins Economics Nobel Prize
• Nuclear tests at Pokhran in Jaisalmer
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• 1999
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• 13th General Elections
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee continues as PM
• PM Vajpayee's trip to Pakistan
• Lahore Peace Declaration
• India Pakistan Kargil battle
• Orissa Super-Cyclone
• Flight IC 814 hijacked
• IRDAI set up
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• 2000
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• 1 billionth Indian born
• Terror attack on Red Fort
• Uttaranchal, Chhattisgarh & Jharkhand formed
• Privatization of insurance business
• Information Technology Act
• Constitution Review Commission (NCRWC)
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• 2001
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• Gujarat (Bhuj) earthquake
• Vajpayee-Musharraf Agra Summit
• Terror attack on Indian Parliament​
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• 2002
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• 10th Five Year Plan
• APJ Abdul Kalam becomes President
• Competition Act
• Test firing of nuclear capable missile Agni
• Godhra train burnt, Gujarat riots
• Right to Education
• Biological Diversity Act​
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• 2003
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• Central Vigilance Commission Act
• Bomb blasts in Mumbai
• India, Pakistan declare Kashmir Ceasefire
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• 2004
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• 14th General Elections
• Manmohan Singh becomes PM
• ​Indian Ocean tsunami hits Indian coastline
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• 2005
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• Second Administrative Reforms Commission
• Domestic Violence Act
• Right to Information Act
• Disaster Management Act
• National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
• Kashmir earthquake
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• 2006
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• USA-India Civil Nuclear Deal (123 Agreement)
• Mumbai trains bomb blasts 
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• 2007
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• 11th Five Year Plan
• ​Pratibha Patil becomes President
• Samjhauta Express bomb blast
• Indo-Pak Agreement on Accidental Nuclear War
• India's first commercial space rocket launched
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• 2008
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• US Congress ratifies USA India nuclear deal
• ​Blasts at Malegaon
• Mumbai terror attacks
• Pause in India Pakistan peace process
• National Investigation Agency formed
• Chandrayaan-1 launched
• ​SC upholds 27% OBC quotas
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• 2009
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• ​15th General Elections
• Manmohan Singh continues as PM
• Delhi High Court decriminalizes homosexuality
• NREGA renamed as MNREGA
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• 2010
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• Allahabad High Court ruling on Ayodhya
• MM Punchhi Commission Report
• National Green Tribunal formed
• 1st Aadhaar Card issued (Tembhli, Maharashtra)
• Commonwealth Games in New Delhi
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• 2011
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• Census puts India's population at 1.21 billion
• SC stays Allahabad HC Ayodhya verdict
• CPI (M) defeated in West Bengal by TMC
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• 2012
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• 12th Five Year Plan
• Pranab Mukherjee becomes President
• The 'Nirbhaya' gang rape shakes India​​
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• 2013
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• SC does not uphold HC order on homosexuality
• Justice JS Verma Committee Report
• Criminal Law (Amendment) Act
• Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act
• Sexual Harassment Act
• Mars Orbiter Mission by ISRO
• Uttarakhand floods & landslides
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• 2014
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• 16th General Elections
• Narendra Modi becomes PM
• Telangana formed
• Kashmir floods
• Kailash Satyarthi wins Nobel Peace Prize
• Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana launched
• Transgenders recognized as third gender by SC
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• 2015
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• India Bangladesh Land Boundary Agreement
• Launch of space laboratory ASTROSAT
• Aam Aadmi Party wins Delhi elections
• NITI Aayog set up by Cabinet Resolution
• ​​NJAC quashed by SC
• Section 66A of Information Technology Act struck down
• Chennai urban floods
• International Solar Alliance formed
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• 2016
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• Terror attack on Pathankot Air Base
• UIDAI formed as a statutory authority
• Demonetization of currency
• India joins MCTR Regime
• Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code
• Rafale fighter jet deal with France
• Plastic Waste (Management) Rules
• GST: 101st Constitutional Amendment
• World Sustainable Development Summit, New Delhi
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• 2017
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• Ram Nath Kovind becomes President
• ​Launch of 'South Asia Satellite' by ISRO
• India becomes full member of SCO
• Goods & Services Tax implemented on July 1
• General & railway budgets presented together
• ​Triple talaq unconstitutional: SC
• Right to Privacy a Fundamental Right: SC
• India admitted to Wassenaar Arrangement
• 15th Finance Commission constituted
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• 2018 
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• SC allows euthanasia
• New Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Notification
• Article 370 not a temporary provision?: SC
• Bhima Koregaon violence
• Major floods in Kerala
• Cryptocurrencies illegal: FM
• 'Triple Talaq' Bill
• Fugitive Economic Offenders Act
• Every village in India electrified as on April 28
• 102nd Constitutional Amendment re. OBCs
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• 2019
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• 17th General Elections 
• Narendra Modi becomes PM
• Lokpal formed
• 103rd Constitutional Amendment re. EWS
• Pulwama (J&K) attack on CRPF
• 'Surgical strikes' on Pakistan
• COP 14 of UNCCD held in India
• Chandrayaan-2 launch
• The ​Jammu & Kashmir Reorganisation Act
• ​SC delivers Ayodhya (Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid) verdict
• Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu merged as a single UT
• 'Disha' rape case in Hyderabad; accused shot dead by police
• Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA)
• Protests against CAA
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• 2020
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• Bodo Peace Accord
• US President Trump visits India
• Communal riots in parts of Delhi
• Pan-India lockdown announced
• Massive 'reverse migration' 
• Skirmishes between India and China
• Gas leak at a chemical plant in Vizag
• Petroleum and gas leak in Baghjan Oilfield, Assam
• India wins a two-year seat in UN Security Council
• National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020)
• Foundation stone of the Ram Temple at Ayodhya
• Court acquits all accused in Babri Masjid demolition case
• ​India starts getting delivery of Rafale jets from France
• The Farm Ordinances / Laws
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• 2021
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• Farmer's protests enter New Delhi on R-Day