ABOUT INDIA

India's Important Events

1947 : India gains freedom on 15th August

1950 : India becomes a Republic.

1951-52 : This period saw the first general election of
independent India

1948 : India's first Olympic gold medal in hockey

1961 : Indian army annexed Goa from the Portuguese

1965 : Indo-Pak war

1971: Indo-Pak War – Bangladesh was born with India’s support.

1974 : India explodes a nuclear device in an underground test.

1975 : Indira Gandhi declares emergency

1983 : India wins the World Cup in cricket

1988 : Viswanathan Anand becomes India's first Grandmaster in Chess

2004 : Thousands of people killed in the Tsunami.

2007:

* Taj Mahal, Indian monument elected as no1 out of Seven Wonders of the World.
* India win Asian hockey tournament.
* India win first Twenty-20 world tournament.

2008:

* India sets a world record by sending 10 satellites into orbit in a single launch.
* Abhinav Bindra won 1st ever individual gold medal for country in olympics.
* Arvind Adiga won man booker award 2008 for his debut novel “ the white tiger”.
* India, US signs nuclear deal.
* Stock market crash in India caused BSE sensex to fall below 9K , which had once touched 22K mark
* Mumbai terror attacks of 26/11 shook the whole nation, killing 183 people leaving the whole city in stress for 60 hrs.