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2008 in India

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2008
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Events in the year 2008 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

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Photo Post Name
India President Pratibha Patil
India Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari
India Prime Minister INC Dr. Manmohan Singh
India Chief Justice K. G. Balakrishnan

Governors

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Post Name
Andhra Pradesh N. D. Tiwari
Arunachal Pradesh K. Sankaranarayanan (until 26 January)
Joginder Jaswant Singh (starting 26 January)
Assam Ajai Singh (until 4 July)
Shiv Charan Mathur (starting 4 July)
Bihar R. S. Gavai (until 9 July)
R. L. Bhatia (starting 4 July)
Chhattisgarh E. S. L. Narasimhan
Goa S. C. Jamir (until 21 July)
Shivinder Singh Sidhu (starting 21 July)
Gujarat Nawal Kishore Sharma
Haryana Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai
Himachal Pradesh Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje (until 19 July)
Prabha Rau (starting 19 July)
Jammu and Kashmir Srinivas Kumar Sinha (until 25 June)
Narinder Nath Vohra (starting 25 June)
Jharkhand Kateekal Sankaranarayanan (until 21 January)
M. O. H. Farook (starting 22 January)
Karnataka Rameshwar Thakur
Kerala R. L. Bhatia (until 10 July)
R. S. Gavai (starting 11 July)
Madhya Pradesh Balram Jakhar
Maharashtra S.M. Krishna (until 5 March)
S.C. Jamir (starting 5 March)
Manipur Shivinder Singh Sidhu (until 22 July)
Gurbachan Jagat (starting 23 July)
Meghalaya Shivinder Singh Sidhu (until 30 June)
Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary (starting 1 July)
Mizoram M. M. Lakhera
Nagaland K. Sankaranarayanan (until 28 July)
Gurbachan Jagat (28 July-14 October)
Nikhil Kumar (starting 15 October)
Odisha Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare
Punjab Sunith Francis Rodrigues (until 22 January)
Shivraj Vishwanath Patil (starting 22 January)
Rajasthan Shilendra Kumar Singh (until 1 December)
Prabha Rau (starting 2 December)
Sikkim Sudarshan Agarwal (until 8 July)
Balmiki Prasad Singh (starting 8 July)
Tamil Nadu Surjit Singh Barnala
Tripura Dinesh Nandan Sahay
Uttar Pradesh T. V. Rajeswar
Uttarakhand Banwari Lal Joshi
West Bengal Gopalkrishna Gandhi

Events

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  • National income - 55,141,524 million

January - May

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June - December

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Arts and literature

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Sport

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  • 18 April – Beginning of the first edition of the IPL.[10]
  • Abhinav Bindra became the first individual gold-medalist at the Olympics for India.
    11 August – Shooter Abhinav Bindra wins the gold in the 10 m Air Rifle event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He became the first Indian to win an individual gold medal at the Olympic Games.
  • 20 August – Wrestler Sushil Kumar wins a bronze medal in the Men's 66 kg Freestyle Wrestling category at 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
  • 21 August – Boxer Vijender Kumar became the first Indian boxer to win an Olympic medal when he won bronze medal in the middleweight category at 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
  • 7 October – Cricketer Sourav Ganguly announces retirement from Test Cricket.
  • 17 October – Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar becomes the leading scorer in Test Cricket and also becomes the first batsman to score 12,000 runs in Test Cricket.
  • Anil Kumble retired as the highest wicket-taker for India in Test Cricket. He was third highest worldwide.
    2 November – Cricketer Anil Kumble announces retirement from Test Cricket.

Deaths

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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Chang, Richard S. (10 January 2008). "Tata Nano: The World's Cheapest Car".
  2. ^ "Farm loan waivers won LS polls for Cong". The Times of India. 15 December 2009. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  3. ^ "BJP, RSS workers attack CPM HQ". The Times of India. 10 March 2008. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  4. ^ "India setting world record by sending 10 satellites into orbit". The Times of India. 28 April 2008. Archived from the original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 6 October 2008.
  5. ^ "Chandrayaan-1 Successfully Enters Lunar Orbit". ISRO. Archived from the original on 18 November 2008. Retrieved 8 November 2008.
  6. ^ Friedman, Thomas (17 February 2009). "No Way, No How, Not Here". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 29 August 2012. Retrieved 17 May 2010.
  7. ^ "Indian Muslims hailed for not burying 26/11 attackers", Sify News, 19 February 2009, archived from the original on 23 October 2010, retrieved 9 September 2010
  8. ^ Schifrin, Nick (25 November 2009). "Mumbai Terror Attacks: 7 Pakistanis Charged – Action Comes a Year After India's Worst Terrorist Attacks; 166 Die". ABC News. Retrieved 17 May 2010.
  9. ^ Speak India
  10. ^ "Lights up over a new era". www.espncricinfo.com. Retrieved 9 October 2020.