2014 in India refers to notable events that took place in the year 2014 in the Republic of India. Among the notable events were the 2014 Indian general election, in which Bharatiya Janata Party obtained a landslide victory and Narendra Modi was sworn in as the new Prime Minister of India. A new state of Telangana was formed. Also in 2014, Mars Orbiter Mission of India successfully entered Mars orbit.
Incumbents Photo Post Name President Pranab Mukherjee Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh (till 2014 Indian general election) Narendra Modi (from 26 May 2014) Chief Justice P. Sathasivam (till 26 April) Rajendra Mal Lodha (26 April-27 September) H. L. Dattu (starting 28 September)
Governors Post Name Andhra Pradesh E. S. L. Narasimhan Arunachal Pradesh Nirbhay Sharma Assam Janaki Ballabh Patnaik (until 11 December)Ram Nath Kovind (starting December) Bihar D. Y. Patil (until 26 November)Keshari Nath Tripathi (starting 26 November) Chhattisgarh Shekhar Dutt (until 19 June)Ram Naresh Yadav (19 June-14 July)Balram Das Tandon (starting 14 July) Goa Bharat Vir Wanchoo (until 4 July)Margaret Alva (12 July-5 August)Om Prakash Kohli (6 August-26 August)Mridula Sinha (starting 26 August) Gujarat Kamala Beniwal (until 6 July)Margaret Alva (7 July-16 July)Om Prakash Kohli (starting 16 July) Haryana Jagannath Pahadia (until 26 July)Kaptan Singh Solanki (starting 27 July) Himachal Pradesh Urmila Singh Jammu and Kashmir Narinder Nath Vohra Jharkhand Syed Ahmed Karnataka Hansraj Bhardwaj (until 29 June)Konijeti Rosaiah (29 June-31 August)Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala (starting 1 September) Kerala Nikhil Kumar (until 5 March)Sheila Dikshit (5 March-26 August)P. Sathasivam (starting 5 September) Madhya Pradesh Ram Naresh Yadav Maharashtra Kateekal Sankaranarayanan (until 24 August)Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao (starting 30 August) Manipur Vinod Duggal (until 28 August)Krishan Kant Paul (starting 16 September) Meghalaya Krishan Kant Paul Mizoram Vakkom Purushothaman (until 6 July)Kamla Beniwal (6 July-6 August)Vinod Kumar Duggal (8 August-16 September)Krishan Kant Paul (starting 16 September) Nagaland Ashwani Kumar (until 27 June)Krishan Kant Paul (2 July-19 July)Padmanabha Acharya (starting 19 July) Odisha S. C. Jamir Punjab Shivraj Vishwanath Patil Rajasthan Margaret Alva (until 7 August)Ram Naik (8 August-3 September)Kalyan Singh (starting 3 September) Sikkim Shriniwas Dadasaheb Patil Tamil Nadu Konijeti Rosaiah Telangana E. S. L. Narasimhan Tripura Devanand Konwar (until 29 June)Vakkom Purushothaman (30 June-14 July)Padmanabha Acharya (starting 14 July) Uttar Pradesh Banwari Lal Joshi (until 17 June)Aziz Qureshi (17 June-21 July)Ram Naik (starting 21 July) Uttarakhand Aziz Qureshi West Bengal M.K. Narayanan (until 30 June)D. Y. Patil (starting 3 July)
Elections
General Elections
2014 Indian General Elections Details UPA NDA Others Won/Lost Lost Won N.A Prime Minister Candidate Not Declared Narendra Modi N.A Photo N.A Party Indian National Congress Bharatiya Janata Party N.A Party Flag N.A Alliance United Progressive Alliance National Democratic Alliance N.A Last Results 228 137 178 568 Increment Required 44 135 94 2014 Results 59 (INC 44) 336 (BJP 282) 148 Difference (Between 2009 and 2014) 169 199 30
State Elections
2014 state elections in India State Preceding Party Preceding Chief Minister New elected party New Chief Minister Competitors Reports Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (Seemandhra) President's rule E. S. L. Narasimhan (Governor) Telugu Desam Party N. Chandrababu Naidu Indian National Congress Telugu Desam Party YSR Congress Party report Telangana Telangana Rashtra Samiti Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao Indian National Congress Telugu Desam Party Telangana Rashtra Samiti Arunachal Pradesh Indian National Congress Nabam Tuki Indian National Congress Indian National Congress People's Party of Arunachal Bhartiya Janata Party report Haryana United Progressive Alliance Bhupinder Singh Hooda Bhartiya Janata Party + Shiromani Akali Dal Manohar Lal Khattar United Progressive Alliance Indian National Lok Dal National Democratic Alliance Aam Aadmi Party report Jammu and Kashmir Jammu & Kashmir National Conference Omar Abdullah Maharashtra Democratic Front Prithviraj Chavan National Democratic Alliance + Shiv Sena Devendra Fadnavis Indian National Congress Nationalist Congress Party National Democratic Alliance Shiv Sena Maharashtra Navnirman Sena Aam Aadmi Party report Odisha Biju Janata Dal Naveen Patnaik Biju Janata Dal Naveen Patnaik Biju Janata Dal Indian National Congress Bhartiya Janata Party report Sikkim Sikkim Democratic Front Pawan Chamling Sikkim Democratic Front Pawan Chamling Sikkim Democratic Front Sikkim Krantikari Morcha report
Events National income - 124,679,593 million
January - March 4 January – An under-construction building collapsed killing 30 construction workers in Goa. 5 January – GSAT-14 launched from Sriharikota using GSLV-D5 launch vehicle. 7 January – Prithvi II missile tested at Chandipur test range. 8 January – Notable Maoist leader Gudsa Usendi and his wife surrendered to the Andhra police. 8 January – Facebook buys the Indian start-up Little Eye Labs. 9 January – Devyani Khobragade, an Indian diplomat whose arrest sparked a diplomatic incident involving India and the United States, was indicted for allegedly lying to obtain a work visa for her housekeeper. She left for India same day under diplomatic immunity. 11 January – India says that it has "no stand-off" with the United States even after the Devyani Khobragade incident. 13 January – India and Sri Lanka exchange 52 imprisoned fishermen. 13–15 January – A three-day meeting was held between India and United States intelligence services in New Delhi. 15 January – The United States returned three 11–12th century sculptures worth million stolen by art thieves from temples in India. 17 January – 8 kidnapped girls from the threatened Jarawa tribe rescued in Andaman. 18 January – A stampede broke out in Mumbai in which 18 died. The stampede broke out at the residence of the religious leader Dawoodi Bohras Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, who had died on 17 January. 29 January – Nido Taniam, a 20-year-old student from Arunachal Pradesh died after being beaten up by locals at a marketplace in the Lajpat Nagar area of New Delhi, triggering widespread protests. 5–11 February – 12th Delhi Auto Expo held in India Expo Mart in Greater Noida. 9 February – A ferry capsized in the Hirakud Dam reservoir drowning 31 persons. 10–11 February – Bank employees of 47 banks carried out a nationwide strike for two days demanding banking sector reforms and better pay. 17 February – 2014 Interim-Union budget was presented by Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram. 19 February – Street Vendors Act, 2014 was passed by Rajya Sabha after Lok Sabha passed it on 6 September 2013. 20 February – Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Bill, 2014 passed by Rajya Sabha. 27 February – 2 officers died in INS Sindhuratna mishap. 28 February – Sahara India Chairman Subrata Roy was arrested in Lucknow after the Supreme Court of India issued a non-bailable warrant. 11 March – 15 security personnel killed in a Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh. 13 March – India formally joins the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. 22 March – Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) re-approves field trails of ten genetically modified crops, including some food crops. 27 March – Sri Lankan Navy arrested 24 Indian fishermen for crossing the International Maritime Boundary Line. 27 March – India and the entire South-East Asia region was declared Polio-free by WHO. 28 March – A recently acquired C-130J Super Hercules of the Indian Air Force crashed near Gwalior killing all five personnel on board. A volunteer was killed when he was washed away in the Chambal river while searching for survivors. 29 March - Central Bureau of Investigation arrests an Indian Revenue Service officer and her husband a Bharatiya Janata Party leader for accepting bribe.
April - June 2 April – Reserve Bank of India granted preliminary licenses to Infrastructure Development Finance Company and Bandhan Financial Services to set up new banks. 4 April – India's second navigation satellite IRNSS-1B was successfully placed in orbit. 7 April – Phase 1 of Indian general election was held in Assam and Tripura. 7 April – Two CRPF personnel were killed in a bomb explosion near Aurangabad in Bihar. 9 April – Phase 2 of Indian general election was held in Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland. 10 April – Phase 3 of Indian general election was held in Andaman and Nicobar, Lakshadweep, Kerala, Haryana, Delhi, and Chandigarh. 12 April – Phase 4 of Indian general election was held in Goa, Tripura, Assam and Sikkim. 12 April – Seven polling staff and five CRPF personnel were killed in two separate Maoist attacks in Bijapur district and Bastar district in Chhattisgarh. The total death toll was 14. 15 April – Supreme Court of India recognised transgender people / hijras as constituting a third gender. 17 April – Phase 5 of Indian general election was held in West Bengal, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Odisha, Bihar, and Uttar Pradesh. 17 April – Robin K. Dhowan appointed the Chief of Naval Staff of the Indian Navy. 24 April – Phase 6 of Indian general election was held in Puducherry, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, West Bengal, and Tamil Nadu 24 April – Maoists killed two polling staff, five police personnel and a cleaner in an ambush in Dumka district in Jharkhand 30 April – Phase 7 of Indian general election was held in Punjab, Gujarat, Daman and Diu, Jammu and Kashmir and Telangana. 1 May – An explosion of two low-intensity bombs happened on a Guwahati bound train from Bangalore arriving at the Chennai Central railway station, killing 1 woman passenger and injuring at least 14 others. 1–3 May – A series of attacks were carried out by National Democratic Front of Bodoland on the migrant Muslims in Assam, killing 32. 7 May – Phase 8 of Indian general election was held in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and West Bengal. 12 May – Phase 9 of Indian general election was held in Bihar, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh. Indian General Elections were completed. 16 May – 2014 Indian general election: The BJP led NDA alliance wins a landslide victory in the Lok Sabha. 18 May – President Pranab Mukherjee dissolves the 15th Lok Sabha. 22 May – Narendra Modi resigns as the Chief Minister of Gujarat. 26 May – Narendra Modi takes his oath of office as the new Prime Minister of India along with his council of ministers. The swearing-in ceremony was noted by media for being the first ever swearing-in of an Indian Prime Minister to have been attended by the heads of all SAARC countries.Swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi 27 May - 2014 Badaun gang rape allegations. 2 June – According to Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, Indian state of Andhra Pradesh was split in two new states Telangana and Andhra Pradesh with Hyderabad remaining the joint capital for 10 years. This made 29 states and 7 seven union territories in India. 3 June – Newly appointed Union Rural Development Minister Gopinath Munde killed in a car crash. 4 June – Police rescued more than 500 children who had been trafficked from eastern states into Kerala. 8 June – On an excursion trip to Himachal Pradesh, 24 students from Hyderabad were washed away in the Beas river on Sunday after a hydropower plant allegedly discharged water into the river without any warning. The incident took place in Thalaut on Manali-Kiratpur Highway, 40 km from district headquarters Mandi. 26 June – A pipeline belonging to GAIL caught fire killing 19 in Nagaram village of East Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh.