2014: A Politically Eventful Year For India

Jan 9: New Delhi: Mahatma Gandhi's grand-daughter Ela Gandhi, Australian senator of Indian origin Lisa Maria Singh and Ramkrishna Mission in Fiji are among the 13 recipients of Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award conferred. 

Jan 9: New Delhi: The anti-corruption helpline, by Delhi Government, receives nearly 4,000 calls in first seven hours of its operation. 

Jan 10: New Delhi: Senior Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade indicted for visa fraud and making false statements by a grand jury in the US, returns. 

Jan 11: New Delhi: Justice Swatanter Kumar, a former Supreme Court judge, sends a legal notice to certain media organisations demanding apology for publicising allegations of sexual harassment levelled against him by a law intern. 

Jan 11: New Delhi: Chaos prevailed at the first 'janta darbar' by AAP government forcing Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to leave the venue mid-way. 

Jan 14: New Delhi: Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti comes under attack from ally Congress and opposition BJP which demand his removal over his being indicted by a court for "tampering of evidence" in a case in which he had appeared as a lawyer. 

Jan 15: New Delhi: A 51-year-old Danish tourist has been allegedly robbed and gangraped at knife-point near New Delhi railway station. 

Jan 15: New Delhi: India and Pakistan discuss "impediments" hampering the normalisation of trade ties, in a bid to remove them and move forward. 

Jan 16: Aam Aadmi Party MLA Vinod Kumar Binny mounts a shrill attack on Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by calling him a "dictator" and accused his government of cheating people, prompting the party to threaten disciplinary action against the legislator. 

Jan 17: New Delhi: Sunanda Pushkar, who was upset over an alleged extra-marital affair between her minister husband Shashi Tharoor and a Pakistani journalist, was found dead in a five-star hotel room which police suspect may be a case of suicide. 
Jan 17: New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh joins other political leaders to condole the death of actress Suchitra Sen, saying she had "graceful cinematic presence." 

Jan 19: 18 people are killed and over 40 injured in a stampede as thousands of mourners converged to pay their last respects to the spiritual leader of the Dawoodi Bohra community Syedna Burhanuddin

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