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{{Year in India|2006}}<br />
Events in the year '''2006 in the Republic of India'''.<br />
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==Incumbents==<br />
* [[President of India]]: [[A.P.J. Abdul Kalam]]<br />
* [[Prime Minister of India]]: [[Manmohan Singh]]<br />
* [[Vice President of India]] – [[Bhairon Singh Shekhawat]]<br />
* [[Chief Justice of India]] – [[Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal]]<br />
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===Governors===<br />
* [[List of governors of Andhra Pradesh|Andhra Pradesh]] – [[Sushilkumar Shinde]] (until 29 January), [[Rameshwar Thakur]] (starting 29 January)<br />
* [[List of governors of Arunachal Pradesh|Arunachal Pradesh]] – [[Shilendra Kumar Singh]]<br />
* [[List of governors of Assam|Assam]] – [[Ajai Singh]]<br />
* [[List of governors of Bihar|Bihar]] – [[Buta Singh]]<br />
* [[List of governors of Chhattisgarh|Chhattisgarh]] – [[Krishna Mohan Seth]] <br />
* [[List of governors of Goa|Goa]] – [[S. C. Jamir]]<br />
* [[List of governors of Gujarat|Gujarat]] – [[Nawal Kishore Sharma]]<br />
* [[List of governors of Haryana|Haryana]] – [[Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai]]<br />
* [[List of governors of Himachal Pradesh|Himachal Pradesh]] – [[Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje]] <br />
* [[List of governors of Jammu and Kashmir|Jammu and Kashmir]] – [[Syed Sibtey Razi]]<br />
* [[List of governors of Jharkhand|Jharkhand]] – [[Srinivas Kumar Sinha|S. K. Sinha]] <br />
* [[List of governors of Karnataka|Karnataka]] – [[T. N. Chaturvedi]]<br />
* [[List of governors of Kerala|Kerala]] – [[R. L. Bhatia]]<br />
* [[List of governors of Madhya Pradesh|Madhya Pradesh]] – [[Balram Jakhar]]<br />
* [[List of governors of Maharashtra|Maharashtra]] – [[S.M. Krishna]]<br />
* [[List of governors of Manipur|Manipur]] – [[Shivinder Singh Sidhu]]<br />
* [[List of governors of Meghalaya|Meghalaya]] – [[M.M. Jacob]]<br />
* [[List of governors of Mizoram|Mizoram]] – [[Amolak Rattan Kohli]] (until 24 July), [[M. M. Lakhera]] (starting 24 July)<br />
* [[List of governors of Nagaland|Nagaland]] – [[Shyamal Datta]]<br />
* [[List of governors of Odisha|Odisha]] – [[Rameshwar Thakur]]<br />
* [[List of governors of Punjab, India|Punjab]] – [[Sunith Francis Rodrigues]]<br />
* [[List of governors of Rajasthan|Rajasthan]] – [[Pratibha Patil]]<br />
* [[List of governors of Sikkim|Sikkim]] – <br />
** until 12 July: [[V. Rama Rao]]<br />
** 13 July-12 August: [[R.S. Gavai]]<br />
** starting 12 August: [[V. Rama Rao]]<br />
* [[List of governors of Tamil Nadu|Tamil Nadu]] – [[Surjit Singh Barnala]]<br />
* [[List of governors of Tripura|Tripura]] – [[Dinesh Nandan Sahay]]<br />
* [[List of governors of Uttar Pradesh|Uttar Pradesh]] – [[T. V. Rajeswar]]<br />
* [[List of governors of Uttarakhand|Uttarakhand]] – [[Sudarshan Agarwal]]<br />
* [[List of governors of West Bengal|West Bengal]] – [[Gopalkrishna Gandhi]]<br />
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==Events==<br />
[[File:Mahim train blast.jpg|thumb|right|[[11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings]]: One of the bomb-damaged coaches at the [[Mahim]] station]]<br />
* National income - {{INR}}42,546,290 million<br />
* 2 January – [[Rajnath Singh]] assumed office as [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (BJP) chief.<br />
* 7–9 January – [[Pravasi Bharatiya Divas]] was organized in [[Hyderabad]].<br />
* 26 January – [[Saudi Arabia|Saudi]] monarch [[Abdullah of Saudi Arabia|King Abdullah]] was chief guest at [[Delhi Republic Day parade|Republic Day parade]] in [[New Delhi]].<br />
* 2–5 March – [[President of the United States]], [[George W. Bush]] visited India. The United States signed a landmark nuclear deal with India pending approval from the US Congress and Indian Parliament.<br />
* 7 March – [[2006 Varanasi bombings]]: A terrorist attack in [[Varanasi]] killed at least 15 people and left more than 50 injured.<br />
* 10 April – Fire at Brand India Fair at Meerut Victoria Park in [[Meerut]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], killed 100.<br />
* May – Medical doctors started a strike against central government decision on reservation for {{clarify|text=other backward classes (OBC)|date=April 2015}} in Medical Institution.<br />
* 6 July – The [[Nathula Pass]] between India and China, sealed during the [[Sino-Indian War]], re-opened for trade after 44 years.<br />
* 11 July – [[11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings]]: A series of coordinated bomb attacks struck several [[Mumbai Suburban Railway|commuter trains]] in [[Mumbai]], India during the evening rush hour.<br />
* 29 August – A 90% iron [[meteorite]] weighing 6.8 kilograms fell in Kanvarpura village in [[Rajasthan]], near Rawatbhata, where the [[Rajasthan Atomic Power Station]] is located. It came to earth in the middle of the day and was found by two shepherds. Scientists from the [[Geological Survey of India]] rushed to the village to recover the object. The Deputy Director-General (western region) of the Geological Survey, R.S. Goyal, said that devastation on an "unimaginable scale" would have ensued had the meteorite struck the power station.<ref>[http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/meteorite-fall-in-rajasthan-village/article3071137.ece Meteorite fall in Rajasthan village] The Hindu, 2006-09-06.</ref><br />
* 20 November – [[2006 West Bengal train disaster]]: A suspected terrorist attack killed five people on a [[train]] in a remote area of [[West Bengal]].<br />
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==Births==<br />
*[[Sara Arjun]], actress<br />
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==Deaths==<br />
[[File:Naushadsaab1.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Naushad Ali]]]]<br />
*3 January – [[Vijay Raghunath Pandharipande]], physicist (born 1940).<br />
*3 February – [[Nadira (actress)|Nadira]], actress (born 1932).<br />
*8 February – [[Kuljeet Randhawa]], Indian actress and former model (born 1976)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://entertainment.oneindia.in/television/top-stories/news/kuljeet-randhawa.html|title=Remembering Kuljeet Randhawa|last=Rao|first=Pavithra|publisher=entertainment.oneindia.in|accessdate=2008-07-23|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20071019223234/http://entertainment.oneindia.in/television/top-stories/news/kuljeet-randhawa.html|archivedate=2007-10-19}}</ref><br />
*25 March – [[Chandrakant Bakshi]], author (born 1932).<br />
*28 March – [[Bansi Lal]], [[Haryana]]'s four time chief minister, and defence minister of India during [[Indian Emergency (1975 – 77)]] (born 1927)<br />
*12 April – [[Dr. Rajkumar|Rajkumar]], actor and singer (born 1929).<br />
*3 May – [[Pramod Mahajan]], politician (born 1949).<br />
*5 May – [[Naushad Ali]], musician and composer (born 1919).<br />
*8 July – [[Raja Rao]], novelist and short story writer (born 1908).<br />
*21 August – [[Bismillah Khan]], [[shehnai]] musician and [[Bharat Ratna]] winner (born 1916).<br />
*27 August – [[Hrishikesh Mukherjee]], film director (born 1922).<br />
*24 September – [[Padmini (actress)|Padmini]], actress and dancer (born 1932).<br />
*9 October – [[Kanshi Ram]], politician and founder of [[Bahujan Samaj Party]] (born 1934).<br />
*19 October- [[Srividya]], South Indian actress (born 1953).<br />
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==Observance==<br />
Following days of religious or cultural significance were observed in 2006.<br />
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*13 January – [[Lohri]], Punjab<br />
*13 January – Arudra Darisanam, Tamil Nadu<br />
*13–14 January – Bikaner Camel Festival<br />
*14 January – International Kite Festival, Ahmedabad and Jaipur<br />
*14 January – Uttarayan Kite Festival, Gujarat<br />
*16 January – Jallikattu festival, Alanganallur<br />
*16 January – Modhera Dance Festival, Modhera<br />
*31 January – Muharram<br />
*2 February – Basant Panchami<br />
*26 February – [[Shiva|Maha Shiv Ratri]]<br />
*15 March – [[Holi]]<br />
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== See also ==<br />
{{Commons category|2006 in India}}<br />
* [[Bollywood films of 2006]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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