Appointed

• Siddharth Varadarajan
• Ratnakar Baral
• Pankaj Pachauri
• Rita Menon
• Mahesh Rangarajan
• Vice Admiral M.P. Muralidharan
• Lt-General Sanjeev Chachra
• Prof. Parvin Sinclair

Death

• Raj Kanwar
• Nikhat Kazmi
• M O H Farook
• C. Jagannatha Rao
• A K Damodaran
• Sukumar Azhikode
• Homai Vyarawala
• Salma Mumtaz
• Anthony Prabhu Gonsalves
• Mohd Akram

Accused/Resigned/ Controversy

• Santosh Hegde
• Harish Khare
• Ilker Basbug

Honour

• Ricky Ponting
• Sheela Gowda
• Laura Dekker
• Hema Malini

Committee/Commission/Conference

• Review Committee on the Delhi School Education Act and Rules 1973
• World Future Energy Summit held in Abu Dhabi
• GOPIO annual conference in Jaipur
• 15th World Sanskrit Conference
• First international grains conference

Books

• When Loss is Gain
• Dream to Destiny

Various

• Kamla Persad Bissessar visited India
• Resident Identity Cards at Porthrapur Village
• India Sixth most Innovative Country in GE's Second Annual Global Innovation Barometer
• 5th Century A.D. Shiva Temple discovered
• UN Resource Centre for the North-East was set up at Guwahati
• Protests in Guatemala
• India cautioned its Businessmen in dealing with Traders in Yiwu