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{{year in India|2004}}
Events in the year '''2004 in the Republic of India'''.

==Incumbents==
* [[President of India]]: [[Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam]]
* [[Prime Minister of India]]: [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]] to 22 May [[Manmohan Singh]]
* [[Vice President of India]] - [[Bhairon Singh Shekhawat]]
* [[Chief Justice of India]] –
** until 2 May – [[V. N. Khare]]
** 2 May-1 June – [[S. Rajendra Babu]]
** starting 1 June – [[Ramesh Chandra Lahoti]]

===Governors===
* [[List of governors of Andhra Pradesh|Andhra Pradesh]] – [[Surjit Singh Barnala]] (until 4 November), [[Sushilkumar Shinde]] (starting 4 November)
* [[List of governors of Arunachal Pradesh|Arunachal Pradesh]] – V.C. Pande till 15, DECEMBER, 2004 and Shilendra Kumar Singh from 16, DECEMBER, 2004
* [[List of governors of Assam|Assam]] – [[Ajai Singh]]
* [[List of governors of Bihar|Bihar]] –
** until 31 October: [[Rama Jois|M. R. Jois]]
** 1 November-4 November: [[Ved Marwah]]
** starting 4 November: [[Buta Singh]]
* [[List of governors of Chhattisgarh|Chhattisgarh]] – [[Krishna Mohan Seth]]
* [[List of governors of Goa|Goa]] –
** until 2 July: [[Kidar Nath Sahani]]
** 2 July-16 July: [[Mohammed Fazal]]
** starting 16 July: [[S. C. Jamir]]
* [[List of governors of Gujarat|Gujarat]] –
** until 2 July: [[Kailashpati Mishra]]
** 2 July-24 July: [[Balram Jakhar]]
** starting 24 July: [[Nawal Kishore Sharma]]
* [[List of governors of Haryana|Haryana]] –
** until 1 July: [[Babu Parmanand]]
** 2 July-7 July: [[Om Prakash Verma]]
** starting 24 July: [[Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai]]
* [[List of governors of Himachal Pradesh|Himachal Pradesh]] – [[Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje]]
* [[List of governors of Jharkhand|Jharkhand]] – [[Ved Marwah]] (until 9 December), [[Syed Sibtey Razi]] (starting 9 December)
* [[List of governors of Jammu and Kashmir|Jammu and Kashmir]] – [[Srinivas Kumar Sinha|S. K. Sinha]]
* [[List of governors of Karnataka|Karnataka]] – [[T. N. Chaturvedi]]
* [[List of governors of Kerala|Kerala]] –
** until 23 February: [[Sikander Bakht]]
** 23 February-23 June: [[T. N. Chaturvedi]]
** starting 23 June: [[R. L. Bhatia]]
* [[List of governors of Madhya Pradesh|Madhya Pradesh]] –
** until 1 May: [[Ram Prakash Gupta]]
** 1 May-2 May: [[Krishna Mohan Seth]]
** 2 May-21 June: [[Balram Jakhar]]
* [[List of governors of Maharashtra|Maharashtra]] – [[Mohammed Fazal]] (until 5 December), [[S.M. Krishna]] (starting 12 December)
* [[List of governors of Manipur|Manipur]] – [[Arvind Dave]] (until 5 August), [[Shivinder Singh Sidhu]] (starting 5 August)
* [[List of governors of Meghalaya|Meghalaya]] – [[M.M. Jacob]]
* [[List of governors of Mizoram|Mizoram]] – [[Amolak Rattan Kohli]]
* [[List of governors of Nagaland|Nagaland]] – [[Shyamal Datta]]
* [[List of governors of Odisha|Odisha]] – [[M. M. Rajendran]] (until 17 November), [[Rameshwar Thakur]] (starting 17 November)
* [[List of governors of Punjab, India|Punjab]] –
** until 3 November: [[Om Prakash Verma]]
** 3 November-16 November: [[Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai]]
** starting 16 November: [[Sunith Francis Rodrigues]]
* [[List of governors of Rajasthan|Rajasthan]] –
** until 14 January: [[Kailashpati Mishra]]
** 14 January-1 November: [[Madan Lal Khurana]]
** 1 November-8 November: [[T. V. Rajeswar]]
** starting 8 November: [[Pratibha Patil]]
* [[List of governors of Sikkim|Sikkim]] – [[V. Rama Rao]]
* [[List of governors of Tamil Nadu|Tamil Nadu]] – [[P. S. Ramamohan Rao]] (until 2 November), [[Surjit Singh Barnala]] (starting 2 November)
* [[List of governors of Tripura|Tripura]] – [[Dinesh Nandan Sahay]]
* [[List of governors of Uttar Pradesh|Uttar Pradesh]] –
** until 2 July: [[Vishnu Kant Shastri]]
** 3 July-7 July: [[Sudarshan Agrawal]]
** starting 7 July: [[T. V. Rajeswar]]
* [[List of governors of Uttarakhand|Uttarakhand]] – [[Sudarshan Agarwal]] (starting 7 January)
* [[List of governors of West Bengal|West Bengal]] – [[Viren J. Shah]] (until 14 December), [[Gopalkrishna Gandhi]] (starting 14 December)

==Events==
* National income - {{INR}}31,863,319 million

=== January - June ===
* 17 January – The national executive of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (BJP) meets at [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]].
* 17 January – [[P.A. Sangma]] quits the [[Nationalist Congress Party]] and decides to ally with the ruling [[National Democratic Alliance (India)|National Democratic Alliance]].
* 28 January – BJP president [[Venkaiah Naidu]] elected for three-year term.
* 28 January – The [[Border Security Force]] busts a hideout of pro-Pakistan [[Hizbul Mujahideen]] in Pulwama District of south [[Kashmir]] and recovers a "huge quantity" of ammunition and explosives. Acting on a tip-off, the security personnel raided the hideout at Remu village in the early hours and recovered around 12,000 rounds of AK ammunition, 2.5 kg [[RDX]] and three [[grenade]]s according to a [[Border Security Force]] spokesman.
* 28 January – Commerce minister [[Arun Jaitley]] announced the Cabinet decision to free gold and silver imports from all restrictions.
* 28 January – The [[Lucknow]] bench of the [[High Courts of India|Allahabad High Court]] fixed 23 February for further hearing of the revision petition filed against deputy prime minister L. K. Advani's discharge in the [[Babri Masjid]] demolition case by a special [[Central Bureau of Investigation|CBI]] court at Rae Bareli.
* 29 January – [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] president [[Sonia Gandhi]] meets [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]] (DMK) leader [[Karunanidhi]] to finalise their electoral pact which also includes the [[Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]] (MDMK), [[Pattali Makkal Katchi]] (PMK) and the Left parties in the state.
* 7 February-15 February – [[Kala Ghoda festival]]
* 18 February - Karnataka khadi gramodyoga samyukta sangha (kkgss) becomes the official flag maker of India.
* 4 March – The [[Maharashtra Pollution Control Board]] (MPCB) refused to clear a project of [[Pepsi]] to expand their plant to triple production in [[Chembur]], [[Mumbai]] on the grounds that the expansion will have a polluting effect on the environment.
* 6 April – The biggest ever [[India|Indo]] -French naval exercise [[Varuna 2004]] gets underway off the coast of [[Goa]].
* 20 April – First phase of polling for [[2004 Indian general elections|fourteenth]] [[Lok Sabha]] elections covering 141 constituencies.
* 26 April – Second phase of polling for [[2004 Indian general elections|fourteenth]] [[Lok Sabha]] elections covering 137 constituencies.
* 5 May – Third phase of polling for [[2004 Indian general elections|fourteenth]] [[Lok Sabha]] elections covering 83 constituencies.
* 7 May - [[Rabinder Singh (intelligence officer)|Rabinder Singh an Indian intelligence officer]] and [[Double agent]] of [[Central Intelligence Agency]] escaped via [[Tribhuvan International Airport]] in Nepal.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-02-05 |title=The Vanished Spies |url=https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/the-vanished-spies/224695 |access-date=2023-02-19 |website=www.outlookindia.com/ |language=en}}</ref>
* 10 May – Fourth and last phase of polling for [[2004 Indian general elections|fourteenth]] [[Lok Sabha]] elections covering 182 constituencies.
* 13 May – Results for the [[2004 Indian general elections|fourteenth]] [[Lok Sabha]] elections announced, the ruling [[National Democratic Alliance (India)|National Democratic Alliance]] (NDA) loses, as the [[Indian National Congress]] wins a surprise victory.
* [[File:Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in March 2014.jpg|thumb|151x151px|[[Manmohan Singh|Dr. Manmohan Singh]] sworn in as the Prime Minister.]]20 May – Dr. [[Manmohan Singh]] sworn in as the new [[prime minister of India]], after Congress forms the [[United Progressive Alliance]] with the Left parties.
* 1 June – Justice [[Ramesh Chandra Lahoti]] appointed [[Chief Justice of India]].
* 22 June - [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/SSC-results-on-June-22/articleshow/741456.cms Maharashtra SSC results] were announced on June 22 at 3 pm. Shri Saraswati Bhuvan High School, Chatrapati Sambhajinagar (previously known as Aurangabad) was one of the top performing school in Maharashtra.

=== July - December ===
* 14 July – [[Lalu Prasad Yadav]], amidst walkouts by the opposition in both houses orders a high-level departmental inquiry into the [[Godhra tragedy]] in 2002.
* 15 July – [[Maninder Pal Singh Kohli]], prime accused in the high-profile rape and murder of British teenager Hannah Foster is arrested by [[West Bengal]] police in Darjeeling District while trying to flee to [[Nepal]].
* 18 July – [[Uttar Pradesh]] [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (BJP) chief [[Vinay Katiyar]] resigns from his post on the direction of the party high command.
* 28 July – Maninder Pal Singh Kohli admits to having raped and murdered British teenager Hannah Foster in an interview to a private television channel.
* 1 August – The [[senior citizen savings scheme]] offering a "high" nine percent taxable return is expected to be launched.
* 31 August – Union minister [[Ghulam Nabi Azad]]'s brother Ghulam Abbas Azad is attacked by terrorists, seriously injuring his security guard in Doda District of [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]].
* 1 September – The [[High Courts of India|Bombay High Court]] passes interim orders restraining [[television channel]]s from broadcasting "any adult TV programme and film without an appropriate certificate from the Indian [[censor board]]."
* 10 September – [[Lord Vaibhav M.B]]. was born.
* 15 October - [[Rajat Kumar]] was born
* 17 October – [[2004 Maharashtra assembly elections|Assembly elections]] Congress and alliance win Maharashtra election [[Maharashtra]].
* 17 October – After the loss in [[Maharashtra]] assembly election BJP president [[Venkaiah Naidu]] quits, [[L. K. Advani|Advani]] to lead BJP.
* 18 October – Bandit [[Veerappan]] Killed by Tamil Nadu and Karnataka Special Task Force members at a checkpost, when the bandit was travelling in an ambulance driven by disguised policeman as driver.
* 11 November – [[Shankaracharya of Kanchi]] [[Jayendra Saraswathi]] is arrested on charges of murdering a temple manager.
* 20 November – Policemen and soldiers recover 300 kg of [[RDX]] from a grocery store near [[Anantnag]].
* 25 November – The Indian [[political party]] [[Congress Jananayaka Peravai]] merges into the [[Indian National Congress]].
* 27 November – [[Lieutenant General]] [[Joginder Jaswant Singh]] is named the next [[Chief of the Army Staff of Indian Army]]. He will succeed General [[N C Vij]] when he retires on 31 January.
* 21 December – [[Zahira Sheikh]], key witness in [[Best Bakery case]] is declared [[hostile witness|hostile]] by the prosecution after she went back on her police statement during the retrial.
* 26 December – [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami|The largest earthquake in 40 years]] originates from the [[Indian Ocean]] off the west coast of [[Sumatra]] island in Indonesia, measuring 9.3 on the [[moment magnitude scale]] and creating [[tsunami]] waves that sweep across much of the coastlines of [[South Asia]]. More than 18,000 reported killed in India and 280,000 across the globe.

==Arts and literature==
* 12 November – [[Veer-Zaara]] is released in Indian cinemas and is a huge blockbuster.

==Sport==
* 28 January – Former [[all-rounder]] [[Robin Singh (cricketer, born 1963)|Robin Singh]] appointed coach of the under-19 Indian [[cricket]] team for the [[junior World Cup]] to be played in [[Bangladesh]] in April.
* 24 March – India win the ODI [[cricket]] series in Pakistan.
* 2 April – India win the 1st Test Match.
* 10 October – Australia wins [[First Test Match]] between India and Australia by 217 runs.
* 18 October – [[Second Test Match]] between India and Australia drawn because of rain.

==Births==
* 4 May – [[Ashnoor Kaur]], actor
* 27 November - [[Anikha Surendran]], actress

==Deaths==
* 9 January – [[Nissim Ezekiel]], poet, playwright and art critic (b. 1924).
* 31 January – [[Suraiya]], actress and singer (b. 1929).
* 23 February
** [[Vijay Anand (Hindi film maker)|Vijay Anand]], [[filmmaker]], [[film producer|producer]], [[screen writer]], [[film editing|editor]] and actor (b. 1934).
** [[Sikander Bakht]], politician (b. 1918).
* 24 February - [[Rajiv Goswami]], [[Mandal Commission protests of 1990|Anti - Mandal protester]] (b.1971)
* 26 February – [[Shankarrao Chavan]], politician and twice [[Chief Minister]] of [[Maharashtra]] (b. 1920).
* 5 March – [[Jaggayya]], actor (b. 1928).
* 7 April – [[Kelucharan Mohapatra]], [[Odissi]] dancer and guru (b. 1926).
* 17 April – [[Soundarya]], actress (b. 1971).
* 27 April – [[J. V. Somayajulu]], actor (b. 1928).
* 1 May – [[Ram Prakash Gupta]], [[Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh]] and governor of [[Madhya Pradesh]] (b. 1923).
* 16 May – [[Kamala Markandaya]], novelist and journalist (b. 1924).
* 19 May – [[E. K. Nayanar]], politician and three times [[Chief Minister]] of [[Kerala]] (b. 1919).
* 2 June –
** [[Dom Moraes]], poet, writer and columnist (b. 1938).
** [[Shrikant Jichkar]], politician (b. 1954).
* 26 June – [[Yash Johar]], film producer (b. 1929).
* 14 July – [[Swami Kalyandev]], supercentenarian (b. 1876).
* 23 July – [[Mehmood Ali|Mehmood]], actor, director and producer (b. 1932).
* 29 July – [[Nafisa Joseph]], model, [[MTV]] [[VJ (media personality)|VJ]], [[Femina Miss India|Miss India]] 1997 (b. 1979).
* 31 July – [[Allu Rama Lingaiah]], actor (b. 1922).
* 2 August – [[V. Balakrishnan (author)|V. Balakrishnan]], writer and translator (b. 1932).
* 15 August – [[Amarsinh Chaudhary]], politician and [[Chief Minister of Gujarat]] (b. 1941).
* 23 September – [[Raja Ramanna]], nuclear scientist (b. 1925).
* 28 September – [[Mulk Raj Anand]], [[Indian writing in English|novelist in English]] (b. 1905).
* 29 September – [[Balamani Amma]], poet (b. 1909).
* 11 October – [[Gulshan Rai]], film producer and distributor (b. 1924).
* 13 October – [[Nirupa Roy]], actress (b. 1931).
* 18 October – [[Veerappan]], bandit (b. 1952).
* 11 December – [[M. S. Subbulakshmi]], [[Carnatic music|Carnatic singer]] (b. 1916).
* 16 December – [[Laxmikant Berde]], comic actor (b. 1954).
* 18 December – [[Vijay Hazare]], cricketer (b. 1915).
* 23 December – [[P. V. Narasimha Rao]], politician, 9th [[Prime Minister of India]] (b. 1921).

==Observances==
The following events which are observed according to the [[Hindu]] calendar were observed on the following dates in 2004.
* [[Basant Panchami]] – 26 January
* [[Maha Shivratri]] – 18 February
* [[Holi]] – 6 March
* [[Ram Navami]] – 30 March
* [[Raksha Bandhan]] – 30 August
* [[Janmashtami]] – 7 September
* [[Ganesh Chaturthi]] – 18 September
* [[Vijayadashami|Dassera]] – 22 October
* [[Deepavali]] – 12 November

== See also ==
{{Commons category}}
* [[Bollywood films of 2004]]

==References==
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