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{{year in India|2007}}
Events in the year '''2007 in the Republic of India'''.

==Incumbents==
* [[President of India]]: [[A. P. J. Abdul Kalam]] to 25 July [[Pratibha Patil]]
* [[Prime Minister of India]]: [[Dr. Manmohan Singh]]
* [[Vice President of India]] –
** [[Bhairon Singh Shekhawat]](till 21 July)
** [[Mohammad Hamid Ansari]](from 11 August)
* [[Chief Justice of India]] – [[Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal]] until 13 January, [[K. G. Balakrishnan]]

===Governors===
* [[List of governors of Arunachal Pradesh|Arunachal Pradesh]] –
* [[List of governors of Assam|Assam]] –
* [[List of governors of Bihar|Bihar]] –
* [[List of governors of Chhattisgarh|Chhattisgarh]] –
* [[List of governors of Goa|Goa]] –
* [[List of governors of Gujarat|Gujarat]] –
* [[List of governors of Haryana|Haryana]] –
* [[List of governors of Himachal Pradesh|Himachal Pradesh]] –
* [[List of governors of Jammu and Kashmir|Jammu and Kashmir]] –
* [[List of governors of Jharkhand|Jharkhand]] –
* [[List of governors of Karnataka|Karnataka]] –
* [[List of governors of Kerala|Kerala]] –
* [[List of governors of Madhya Pradesh|Madhya Pradesh]] –
* [[List of governors of Maharashtra|Maharashtra]] –
* [[List of governors of Manipur|Manipur]] –
* [[List of governors of Meghalaya|Meghalaya]] –
* [[List of governors of Mizoram|Mizoram]] –
* [[List of governors of Nagaland|Nagaland]] –
* [[List of governors of Odisha|Odisha]] –
* [[List of governors of Punjab, India|Punjab]] –
* [[List of governors of Rajasthan|Rajasthan]] –
* [[List of governors of Sikkim|Sikkim]] –
* [[List of governors of Tamil Nadu|Tamil Nadu]] –
* [[List of governors of Tripura|Tripura]] –
* [[List of governors of Uttar Pradesh|Uttar Pradesh]] –
* [[List of governors of Uttarakhand|Uttarakhand]] –
* [[List of governors of West Bengal|West Bengal]] –

==Events==
[[File:PratibhaIndia.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Prathiba Patil]] is elected as the first female [[President of India]]]]
* January–November – [[Nandigram violence]] – Clashes between opposition parties, the governing [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] and police in [[Nandigram]], [[West Bengal]]. On 14 March, 14 villagers were killed in police firing.
* 10 January – India [[Rocket launch|launch]]es four [[satellites]] at a time with their [[PSLV]] -C7 rocket, including the [[Space Capsule Recovery Experiment|SRE-1]] test article, which will return to Earth in a test for a future Indian [[human spaceflight]] program.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2007-01-10T084639Z_01_DEL159433_RTRUKOC_0_US-INDIA-SPACE-SATELLITES.xml |title=Reuters |access-date=10 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070906175933/http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews |archive-date=6 September 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 17 January – Protests occur in India and the United Kingdom against the British series of [[Celebrity Big Brother 5 (UK)|''Celebrity Big Brother'']] after [[Jade Goody]], [[Danielle Lloyd]] and [[Jo O'Meara]] were alleged to have been racially abusive towards [[Bollywood]] star [[Shilpa Shetty]].
* 22 January – [[Indian Space Research Organisation|Indian spacecraft]] [[Space Capsule Recovery Experiment|SRE 1]] successfully completes a twelve-day [[orbit]]al test flight, making India one of the few nations to [[atmospheric reentry|return a craft from orbit]].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6286663.stm BBC]</ref>
* 24 January – India and [[Russia]] agree to jointly develop [[Fifth generation jet fighter|fifth-generation stealth fighter jets]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=42250 |title=ISRO |access-date=10 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929094301/http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=42250 |archive-date=29 September 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 18 February – [[2007 Samjhauta Express bombings]]: Islamist militants from the [[Lashkar-e-Taiba]] organization set off a bomb on the [[Samjhauta Express]], a twice-weekly train service connecting [[Delhi]], India, and [[Lahore]], Pakistan. Bombs were set off in two carriages, both filled with passengers, just after the train passed Diwana station near the Indian city of [[Panipat]], {{convert|80|km|mi}} north of [[New Delhi]]. 68 people were killed in the ensuing fire and dozens more were injured.<ref>[http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/DEL341952.htm Reuters Alertnet]</ref>
* 20 February – A river boat carrying children on a school trip on the [[Periyar River]] in southern India capsizes, killing at least 18 students and four teachers.<ref>[http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/02/20/india.boat.ap/index.html?eref=rss_world AP via CNN]</ref>
* 4 March – [[Sunil Kumar Mahato]], an Indian member of [[Lok Sabha|parliament]] from the [[Jharkhand Mukti Morcha]], is killed by suspected [[Naxalite|Maoist rebels]] while he was attending a local [[association football|football]] match in [[Jharkhand]] organised to mark the Hindu festival of [[Holi]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070306073617/http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/05/stories/2007030513330100.htm The Hindu]</ref>
* 15 March – [[Naxalite]] rebels attack a [[police]] outpost in the [[Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh|Bijapur district]] of [[Chhattisgarh]], India, killing at least 49 officers and looting their weapons.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121016043854/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2007-03-15/india/27877564_1_naxals-outpost-in-bijapur-district-police-outpost Times of India]</ref>
* 16 April – At least 11 people die in [[southern India]] as a passenger [[train]] runs into a [[minibus]] carrying local officials near the village of [[Thirumatpur]] in [[Tamil Nadu]].<ref>[http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4717837.html AP via Houston Chronicle]</ref>
* 18 May – [[18 May 2007 Hyderabad Bombing]]: 9 people are killed in a bomb blast at the [[Mecca Masjid]] [[mosque]] in the Indian city of [[Hyderabad, India]].<ref>[http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/may/18blast.htm]</ref>
* 19 July – [[Prathiba Patil]]is elected as the first female [[President of India]].
* 25 August – [[25 August 2007 Hyderabad bombings|Forty-four people are dead after two bombs explode]] in [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]].
* August – India and the United States release the text of 123 agreement.<ref>[https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2007/aug/90050.htm US press release]</ref> This has been very controversial in the Indian political environment with both Left and NDA opposing the UPA over the issue.
* 24 September – [[India]] won the ICC t20 world cup 2007 by beating their rivals [[Pakistan]] in the final
* 11 November – Miss India-Earth [[Pooja Chitgopekar]] won in [[Miss Earth 2007]] beauty pageant as Miss Earth-Air (1st-runner up) held in [[Manila, Philippines]].
* 21 November – [[Calcutta]] – Protests over Bangladeshi feminist writer Taslima Nasreen turn into deadly riots; troops are deployed.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7105277.stm |title=Army deployed after Calcutta riot | work=BBC News | date=21 November 2007 | access-date=2010-01-01}}</ref>
* 22 December – [[Narendra Modi]] led government in [[Gujarat]] completes its term.

==Births==

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It is estimated that over 1.2 million children were born in 2007

[[Tanmay yelane)]]= 20/06/2007

==Deaths==
[[File:Kamleshwar (1932 - 2007).jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Kamleshwar (writer)|Kamleshwar]]]]
* 27 January – [[Kamleshwar (writer)|Kamleshwar]], writer, screenwriter, critic and essayist (b. 1932).
* 28 January – [[O. P. Nayyar]], film music director and composer (b. 1926).
* 2 February – [[Vijay Arora]], actor (b. 1946).
* 4 March – [[Sunil Kumar Mahato]], politician, assassinated (b. 1966).
* 5 April – [[Leela Majumdar]], writer (b. 1908).
* 5 April – [[Poornachandra Tejaswi]], writer and novelist (b. 1938).
* 13 April – [[Dhulipala Seetharama Sastry]], actor (b. 1921).
* 27 May – [[Ibrahim Saeed]], journalist, editor and scholar (b. 1945).
* 27 May – [[G. Srinivasan (producer)|G. Srinivasan]], film producer (b. 1958).
* 13 June – [[Ramchandra Gandhi]], philosopher, grandson of [[Mahatma Gandhi]] (b. 1937).
* 2 July – [[Dilip Sardesai]], cricketer (b. 1940).
* 8 July – [[Chandra Shekhar]], politician, 11th [[Prime Minister of India]] (b. 1927).
* 21 August – [[Qurratulain Hyder]], novelist and short story writer, academic and journalist (b. 1926).
* 10 October – [[S. R. Bommai]], politician and [[Chief Ministers of Karnataka|Chief Minister of Karnataka]] (b. 1924).
* 11 October – [[Sri Chinmoy]], spiritual teacher and philosopher (b. 1931).
* 27 October – [[Satyen Kappu]], actor (b. 1931).
* 21 December – [[Teji Bachchan]], wife of poet [[Harivansh Rai Bachchan]] and mother of actor, [[Amitabh Bachchan]].
* 25 December – [[G. P. Sippy]], film producer and director (b. 1914).

== See also ==
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* [[Bollywood films of 2007]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070605082405/http://www.internationalhospitalityfair.in/index.asp CII India Trade Fair]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170714111455/http://www.tradefairofindia.com/ Trade Fair of India]

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