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The following lists events that happened during 2016 in India .
Incumbents
Governors
Events
National income - ₹ 153,916,690 million
January - May
1 January – The Indian and Pakistani governments provided one another with a full list of nuclear sites, military and civilian, in accordance with the 1988 Non-Nuclear Aggression Agreement .[ 1]
2 January – Heavily armed gunmen, reportedly members of Jaish-e-Mohammed , attacked an Indian Air Force base in Pathankot , Punjab . Two of the gunmen were killed.[ 2]
3 January – A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck India 29 km (18 mi) west of Imphal with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong ).[ 3] [ 4] [ 5]
17 January - A PhD student from University of Hyderabad named Rohith Vemula committed suicide due to Caste based discrimination. The event triggered a countrywide agitation against casteism in institutions of higher learning.[ 6]
8 February - Facebook 's FreeBasics declared illegal in India and stopped services in the country.[ 7] [ 8] [ 9]
20 February - militants besieged the Entrepreneurship Development Institute[ 10]
14 March – Police horse Shaktiman was attacked with a stick by BJP MLA politician and cabinet minister Ganesh Joshi during a protest organized by BJP against the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand . The attack and the horse's later death would cause worldwide outrage.[ 11]
16 March - RTI activist Vinayak Baliga murdered in Mangalore by contract killers closely linked to Hindutva group NaMo Brigade .[ 12] [ 13]
18 March - Ahead of polls in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, Supreme Court of India allows pictures of Union Ministers, Chief Ministers, Governors and State Ministers to appear in government advertisements.[ 14]
5 April - Bihar state imposed liquor ban.[ 15]
5 April - India 's fastest train Gatimaan Express started Operating between Hazrat Nizamuddin and Agra Cantonment by Indian Railways .
2016 Ujjain Simhastha Kumbha Fair organized between 22 April and 21 May. Nearly 75 million people visited the fair during this one-month period.[ 16]
10 April – Puttingal temple fire caused 107 deaths.[ 17]
11 April – 2016 Assam Legislative Assembly election – BJP won the majority.
5 May - 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election – Mamata Banerjee -led TMC won majority.
16 May - 2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election - Jayalalithaa -led AIADMK won majority.
16 May - 2016 Puducherry Legislative Assembly election – Congress won majority.
23 May - Hypersonic Flight Experiment : The ISRO 's RLV-TD vehicle was launched from the first launchpad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre on board an HS9 rocket booster.[ 18]
30 May - 30 died following fire in army weapon depot in Pulgaon , Wardha district , Maharashtra.[ 19]
June - December
Public holidays
Publications
Deaths
January
2 January
3 January
4 January – S. H. Kapadia , Indian judge (b. 1947)[ 49]
6 January – Labhshankar Thakar , Gujarati author (b. 1935)[ 50]
7 January – Mufti Mohammad Sayeed , Indian politician (b. 1936)[ 51]
8 January
13 January
Rajesh Vivek Rajesh Vivek , actor (b. 1949)[ 56] 15 January – Anil Ganguly , film director (b. 1933)[ 57]
16 January – Ananda Chandra Dutta , botanist (b. 1923)[ 58]
17 January
18 January – Asha Patil , actress (b. 1936)[ 62]
20 January – Subrata Bose , politician (b. 1932)[ 63]
21 January – Mrinalini Sarabhai , classical dancer, choreographer and instructor (b. 1918)[ 64]
22 January – Shankar Ghosh , tabla player (b. 1935)[ 65]
23 January – A. C. Jose , politician (b. 1937)[ 66]
25 January
28 January – Maheswar Baug , politician and independence activist (b. 1930)[ 70]
29 January – Nayani Krishnakumari , writer and folklorist (b. 1930)[ 71]
30 January
31 January – Randhir Singh , political scientist (b. 1921)[ 75]
February
1 February – Kunigal Ramanath , 83, Kannada actor.[ 76]
3 February –
5 February – Markand Bhatt , 87, theatre director and actor.[ 79]
6 February – Sudhir Tailang , 55, cartoonist.[ 80]
8 February – Nida Fazli , 77, poet.[ 81]
13 February – O. N. V. Kurup , 84, poet, recipient of the Jnanpith Award (2007).[ 82]
17 February – Akbar Kakkattil , 62, writer.[ 83]
18 February –
20 February – Pradeep Shakti , 60, actor and restaurateur.[ 86]
21 February –
25 February – Bhavarlal Jain , 78, businessman (Jain Irrigation Systems ).[ 89]
26 February
27 February
28 February –
29 February – Nihal Ahmed Maulavi Mohammed Usman , 90, politician, Maharashtra MLA (1960–1999), mayor of Malegaon .[ 96]
April
June
July
August
October
November
December
See also
References
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