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Template:Year in India Events in the year 2002 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

Governors

Events

  • 5 March – Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited founded.[1]
  • 14 August – Internet is officially launched by VSNL.[2]
  • 21 September – Reports of the Hindu milk miracle surface.
  • 23 December – Nearly 425 people die when a blaze rips through a school prize-giving ceremony in the northern town of Dabwali in Haryana state, near the Indian capital.
  • 20 October – Hindi movie Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge released the longest running Hindi movieTemplate:Citation needed.
  • 31 August – Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh is assassinated.
  • India joins the World Trade Organization (WTO) which has replaced GATT.
  • November 1995 – City of Bombay renamed as Mumbai
  • 17 December 1995 in which unauthorised arms were dropped from an Antonov An-26 aircraft in Purulia district in the state of West Bengal

Births

Deaths

See also

References

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