2014: A Politically Eventful Year For India

Jan 21: New Delhi: Drug overdose appears to be the cause of the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar, wife ofUnion Minister Shashi Tharoor, according to the findings of doctors of AIIMS who conducted the autopsy on her. 

Jan 21: New Delhi: Ministry of External Affairs rejects Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's claim that a Ugandan official had met his Law minister Somnath Bharti in connection with an alleged sex racket. 

Jan 22 Hyderabad: Akkineni Nageswara Rao, who scaled the peaks of Telugu cinema rivalling N T Rama Rao in stature between 50s and 70s, dies of cancer. 

Jan 23: New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee gives seven more days to the Andhra Pradesh Assembly till January 30 to discuss and debate the draft Telangana bill before returning it to the Centre which promised to table the legislation in the upcoming session of Parliament. 

Jan 24: Jammu: In a controversial decision, the Army closes the infamous Pathribal encounter case saying it has found no evidence against its men, drawing angry reaction from Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah 

Jan 25: New Delhi: Noted scientist R A Mashelkar and Yoga Guru B K S Iyengar are chosen for this year's Padma Vibhushan, while cine star Kamala Haasan, author Ruskin Bond and late former Chief Justice J S Verma were selected for Padma Bhushan 

Jan 25: Three personnel of the armed forces have been selected this year for the Kirti Chakra, the second highest peace time gallantry award, for their acts of bravery on the Line of Control (LoC), anti-maoist operation and reliefoperation in flood-hit Uttarakhand, respectively. 

Jan 26: New Delhi: Cracking the whip, the Aam Aadmi Party expels its rebel MLA Binod Kumar Binny, ten days after he called Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal a "dictator". 

Jan 26: New Delhi: Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is the Chief Guest at the 65th Republic Day parade becoming the first premier from that country to grace the occasion. 

Jan 27: New Delhi: The Jain community becomes the sixth religious group accorded with the minority status following a notification issued by the Centre. 

Jan 28: New Delhi: Railway Minister Mallikarjun Kharge is given additional charge of Social Justice and Empowerment ministry following the resignation of Kumari Selja. 

Jan 29: New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh rejects BJP leader Arun Jaitley's contention that government flouted rules by issuing an advertisement inviting applications for posts of Lokpal chairman and members were illegal. 

Jan 30: New Delhi: The Union Cabinet gave its approval to a bill that seeks to give wakf properties the status of public premises and make unauthorised occupation of waqf land a criminal offence. 

Jan 30: New Delhi: Government suspends the ambitious scheme to pay LPG subsidy in cash to consumers directly but raises the quota of subsidised cooking gas to 12 cylinders per household in a year. 

Jan 31: Dehradun: Vijay Bahuguna resigns as Uttarakhand Chief Minister. 

Jan 31: New Delhi: Government orders magisterial inquiry into death of Nido Tania, son of a Congress leader from Arunachal Pradesh, who was allegedly beaten up by some shopkeepers in Lajpat Nagar area of South Delhi. 

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