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See also: 2006 in India, other events of 2007, 2008 in India and the Timeline of Indian history.

Events

• 17 January - Protests occur in India and the United Kingdom against the British series of Celebrity Big Brother after Jade Goody, Danielle Lloyd and Jo O'Meara were alleged to have been racially abusive towards Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty.
• 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.
• 19 July - Prathiba Patil is elected as the first female President of India.
• 25 August - Forty-four people are dead after two bombs explode in Hyderabad.
• August - India and the United States release the text of 123 agreement.^[1] This has been very controversial in the Indian political environment with both Left and NDA opposing the UPA over the issue.
• 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.^[2]
• 22 December - Narendra Modi led government in Gujarat completes its term.

Deaths

January to June

• 27 January - 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, film producer (b.1958).
• 13 June - Ramchandra Gandhi, philosopher, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi (b.1937).
• 15 June - Dr. Mohamad Abdul Tayyab, agricultural scientist (b.1932).

July to December

• 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 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).

References

External links

• CII India Trade Fair
• Trade Fair of India