2015
01-Jan 
The modi government sets up NITI Aaytog (National Institution for Transforming India) in place of the Planing Commision.
The Karnataka High Court sets up a Special Bench under Justice C.R. Kumaraswamy to hear appeals filed by AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa in the disporportionate assets case.
The Tamil Nadu Governor K.Rosaiah confers the Sangita Kalanidhi award on musician T.V. Gopalakrishan at the 'Sadas' at the Music Academy in Chennai.
03-Jan 
The title Natya Kala Acharya is conferred on Bharatanatyam artist Leela Samson at the Music Academy's dance festival in Chennai.
04-Jan 
The India Science Congress makes history with a sysposium on "Ancient Sciences through Sanskrit".
05-Jan 
Columbia University Professor Arvind Panagariya is appointed NITI Asyog Vice- Chairman.
06-Jan 
Sensex plummets by 855 points in its worst crash in five and a half years and closes at 26987.46
08-Jan 
Tamil writer Perumal Murugan flees home town following furore over his book Mathorubhagan.
09-Jan
Jammu and Kashmir comes under Governor's rule.
Vistara, the new airline of Tata SIA Airlines, begins commercial operations in New Delhi.
10-Jan 
Sindhushree Khullar is appointed CEO of NITI Aayog.
13-Jan 
Tamil writer Perumal Murugan gives up writing and with draws all his books.
15-Jan 
Leela Samson quits as CBFC chairperson.
Hari Shankar Brahma takes over as the 19th CEC at Nirvachan Sadan, New Delhi.
17-Jan 
Ashok Srinivasan is presented The Hindu Prize 2014 at the Lit for life 2015 for his debut collection of 13 short stories, Book of Common Signs in Chennai.
19-Jan 
Filmmaker Pahlaj Nihalani is appointed CBFC chairperson.
21-Jan 
ensex sets a life-time high of 28958 points and NSE Nifty records a historic 8741 points
22-Jan 
The Surpreme Court in a benchmark verdict says BBCI officials cannot have commercial interests in the IPL.
Gurunath Meiyappan and Raj Kundra found guilty of betting.
Three member panel headed by former CJI R.M Lodha to decide penalty.
 Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri wins the $50,000 DSC prize for Literature for her book, The Lowland.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches the Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao (save daughters, educate daughters) scheme in Panipat, Haryana ""Sukanya Samrudhi"" account scheme unveiled.
Sensex closes at a record high of 29006.02
24-Jan -
Poet Arundhati Subramanian wins the inaugural Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize for Poetry for her work "" When God is a Traveller"" at the zee Jaipur Literature Festival.
25-Jan 
A declaration of friendship,a renewed 10-year defence partnership and the nuclear break through mark the second summit between Prime Miniter Narendra Modi and the U.S President Barack Obama in New Delhi.
BJP Patriach L.K. Advani, Punjab Chief Minister Parakash Singh Badal, nuclear scientist M.R Srinivasan and actors Amitabh Bachchan and Dilip Kumar prominent among the nino Padma Vib hushan awardees.
Former CEC N. Gopslswami, constitutional expert Subhash C.Kashyap, Carnatic vocalist Subha Raghunathan, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates and fileds Medal winner Mnjul Bhargava among 20 Padma Bhushan awardees.
Volinist Kanyakumari Avasarala, filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali, industrialist T.V Mohandas Pai, actor Kota Srinivasa Rao, badminton player P.V. Sindhu, Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin and Pran Kumar Sinha (both posthumous) among 75 Padma Shree recipitents.
26-Jan 
The U.S President Barack Obama announcess $4billion in bank loans $2 billion for green energy projects and $1 billion from the Exim Bank of the U.S at the India US Business Summit in New Delhi. 
Military might showcased in the 66th Republic Day parade. In a first, all-women contingents of the three Services take part.
29-Jan
S. Jaishankar takes charge as Foreign Secretary.
Sensex gains 122.59 points to a new closing peak of 29681.77, after reaching a lifetime high of 29740.63.
30-Jan 
Former Union Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan quits the Congress.
In its largest ever disinvestment, the Centre raises Rs. 22,557.63 crore from the sale of its 10 per cent share holding in Coal India Ltd.
31-Jan 
The former Union Minister mataing Singh is arrested in Kolkata by the CBI in the multicrore Saradha chit fund scam.
FEBRUARY
01-Feb 
Veteran actor Dilip Kumar is conferred Lifetime Achievement Award at the Jaipur International Film Festival.
Malini Parthasarathy takes charge as the first women Editior of The Hindu.
04-Feb 
Union Home Secretary Anil Goswami is sacked for allegedly trying to stall the arrest of former Minister Matang Singh.
L.C. Goyal Appointed in his place.
05-Feb 
L.C Goyal takes charge as union Home secretary.
The election of a returned candidate will be held as null and void if the fails to disclose full details of his criminal antecedents at the time of nomination rules the Supreme Court.
06-Feb 
The Delhi High Court enhances to 30days the lifer awared to Vikas Yadav and his cousin Vishal of Nitish Katara.
Marathi writer Bhalchandra Nemade known for works like Kosal (Cocoon) and Hindu is selected for the Jnanpith award for 2014.
07-Feb 
Delhi resisters a record 67.08 percent turnout in the As sembly polls.
09-Feb 
Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi expelled from the Janata Dal United.
10-Feb 
The Aam Aadmi Pary sweets to power with 67 sets in the 70-member Delhi Assembly
Facebook launches Internet.org inIndia at a function in Mumbai.
ICICI Bank launches the first digital bank in the country 'Pockets' on earings.
13-Feb 
Srirangam Witnesses over 80 per cent turnout in bypolls.
Sensex gains 289.83 points to reclaim 29000-mark on stellar SBI earnings.
14-Feb 
Arvind Kejriwal takes oath as Delhi's eighth Chief Minister at the Ramlila Maldan in new Delhi.
16-Feb 
The AIADMK, candidate S.Valarmathi scores a massive victory in the Srirangam Assembly bypolls bagging 1,51,561 votes.
The trinamool Congress wins a thumping victory in the Lok Sabha and Assembly byelections in West Bengal. Bags Bongaon LS Sets by a ecord margin of 2.11 lakh votes.
India and Sri Lanka sign a Civil Nuclear Cooperation pact after talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Maithripala Sirisena, in New Delhi.
19-Feb 
A six member relay team including Manav Mehta, a class 9 student sets a new open sea swim world record by swimming from Goa to Mumbai in 156 hours.
20-Feb 
Veteran CPI leader Govind Pansare dies of gun shot wounds sustained in an attack in Kolhapur on Feb.10 at the Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai.
Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi resigns.
22-Feb 
Senior JD (U) leader Nitish Kumar takes oath as Bihar Chief Minister in Patna.
23-Feb 
Yaduveer Gopal Urs is formally adopted as heir to the Wadiyar dynasty a ceremony in Amba Vilas Palace, Mysuru and given the name Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar.
24-Feb 
R.K.Pachouri, Chairperson of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes, resigns.
The Union Cabinet gives nod for setting up the New Development Bank and the BRICS Contingent Reserve Arranmgement.
25-Feb 
The 2015-16 Railway budget (plan outly Rs.1,00,000 Crore) leaves passenger fares untouched. Freight rates hiked.
28-Feb 
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley allocates Rs.70,000/- crore for public spending on infrastructure to spur growth in the sconomy, presenting the Union Budget 2015-16 Announces Artal Innovation Mission and the Atal Pension Yojana Nirbhaya Fund gets Rs.1,000/- crore.
MARCH
01-Mar 
Mufti Mohammad Sayed takes oath as the 12th Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir heading a PDP- BJP coalition Ministry.
02-Mar 
The Nasdaq Compasite Index surges above 5,000 for the first time in 15 years since the massive dotcom crash of 2000.
Maharashtra Animal Preservation (Amendment) Bill 1995. Barning cow slaughter gets Presidebtial nod.
03-Mar 
Three senior brokerage officials are arrested by the Mumbai police in connection with the Rs. 4,600/- crore National Spot Exchange scarn.
04-Mar - BSE Sensex crosses the historic 30000 mark and the NSE Nifty touches the 9100 milestone in early trade. *The Lok Sabha clears the longpending Insurance Laws( Amendment ) bill.
05-Mar 
The Maharashta government officially scraps the five percent reservation for Muslims in educational institutions, despite a Bombay High Court ruling, in its favour.
The Delhi High Court upholds the January 2013 conviction of the former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, his son and 53 others in the junior teachers recuritment scam that took place in 2000.
The Centre bans telecast on Internet a documentary India's DAughter by British director Leslee Udwin on the Dec.16, 2012, Delhi gangrape that was aired on the BBC's Channel 4 earlier in the day.
07-Mar 
Senior Separatist leader Masarat Alam, One among the main organisers of the pro-Azadi protests in the Valley in 2010, is freed from priosn by the J&K police.
10-Mar 
The Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bills is approved in the Lok Sabha.
12-Mar 
Rajya Sabha passes the Insurance Laws (Amendment) bill, 2015.
13-Mar 
The Kerala Assembly witnesses unprecedent violence as the Opposition LDF tries to prevent the Finance Minister K.M. Mani who faces bribery charges in the bar licence row from presenting the budget.
Suzette Jordan who was allegedly raped in a moving car on Park Street in Kolkata in February 2012 dies in the city after a brief illness.
14-Mar 
The LDF Sponsored dawn-to -dusk Kerala wide hartal in protest against the alleged assault on its MLAs inside the Assembly hits life.
17-Mar 
The Surpreme Court sets aside the quota for jats.
The Union Cabinet gives nod for The Undisclosed Income and Assets (Imposition of Tax) bill.
20-Mar 
At least 38 passengers of the Dehradun- Varanasi Janata Express are killed and nearly 150 injured after f our coaches derail near the Bachrawan Station in Rae Bareli district, U.P
21-Mar 
A Delhi court acquits all 16 accused in the May 22,1987 Hashimpura masssacre at Meerut that Left 42 dead, for lack of evidence.
Rajendra Single, dubbed the 'Waterman of India' instrumental in Rajasthan is chosen for the stock holm Water Prize.
23-Mar 
Veteran Actor Producer Shashi Kapoor is chosen for the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2014.
24-Mar 
The Supreme Court strikes down section 66A of the Information Technology Act terming it unconstitutional.
Director Chaitanya Tamhane's qualdrillingual film Court emerges as the best feature film and Kangana Ranaut is adjected best actress for her role in Vijay Bahl's Queen at the 62nd National Film Awards in New Delhi. Kanada actor Vijay bags the best actor award for role in Nanu Avanalla Avalu.
25-Mar 
Shailesh Yadav, son of Madhya Pradesh Governor Ram Naresh Yadav and an accused in the Vyapam scam is found dead at his father's residence in Lucknow.
26-Mar 
The Madras High Court Bench in Madurai restrains the centre from permitting start of work at the proposed INO project in Pottipuram, Theni District.
27-Mar 
President Pranab Mulkherjee confers Bharat Ratna on former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vaijpayee at the latter's residence in New Delhi.
28-Mar 
The AAP removes founder members Yogendra Yadav and prashant Bhushan from it is national executive.
ISRO's PSLV C-27 successfully launches Indain Regional Navigation Satellite I-System (IRNSS) I-D into the intended orbit.
The NDA government announces the removal of  Dr. Aziz Qureshi as Mizoram Governor.
30-Mar 
Fredom fighter and founder of Banaras Hindu University Madan Mohan Malviya is posthumously conferred the Bharat Ratna at a function in New Delhi.
31-Mar 
The Gujarat Assembly passes the landmork Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organised Crime Bill 2015.
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court upholds the UDF government's liqour policy that permitted bars to function only in hotels of five star and above categories.
The Karnataka Assembly adopts the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Karnataka Amendment) Bill 2015 and the Kannada Language Learning Bill 2015.
April
01-Apr 
The Supreme court stays summons issued by a special Court against the former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and five others in the coal scam case.
The Andhra Pradesh government decides to name the new capital Amaravati.
03-Apr 
President Pranab Mulkherjee signs the new Land Acquisition Ordinance.
07-Apr 
Twenty woodcutters from tamil nadu found felling red sanders are killed by police in an alleged encounter in the Seshachalam forest at the foot of the Tirumala hills in Andhra Pradesh.
The Union Cabinet gives nod for the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill.
08-Apr 
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches the Pradhan Mantri Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency Ltd.(MUDRA) Yojana, in New Delhi. MUDRA bank launched.
09-Apr 
A Special Court in Hyderabad senstences to seven years RI the former Chairman of Satyam Computers Services Ltd., B.Ramalinga Raju and nine others in a Rs.7,000 crore corporate fraud case.
The Union Ministry suspends the registration of Greenpeace India under the Foreign Contrubution Regulation Act for six months and freezes its seven account, prohibiting donations from abroad.
13-Apr 
The Union government notifies the National Judicial Appointments Commision (NJAC) law and brings to an end decades old collegium system of appointing judges.
17-Apr 
Hurriyat leader Masarat Alam is arrested on changes of orhanising a pro-freedom rally and reising a Pakistani flag in Srinagar.
19-Apr 
Rajya Sabha member Sitaram Yechury is elected the fifth general secretary of the CPI(M) at the 21st Party Congress in Visakhapatnam.
Nasim Zaidi takes over as the 20th CEC in New Delhi.
20-Apr 
The AAP exples rebel leaders Yogendra Yadav, Prashant Bhushan, Anand Kumar and Ajit Jha from the Party.
22-Apr 
Gajendra Singh, a farmer from Dausa district, Rajasthan commits suicide at a political rally organised by the AAP against the Centre's land ordinance at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi.
24-Apr 
The Rajya Sabha passes for the first time in 45 years a private member's bill protecting and providing rights for transgenders.
25-Apr 
At least 51 persons are killed across Bihar, U.P and West Bengal after tremors from the quake in Nepal t rigger house collapese.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi presents the Jnanpith Award for 2014 to Marathi writer Bhalchandran Nemade, New Delhi.
27-Apr 
The apex court declares ""bad in law"" the appointment of Bhavani Singh as SPP by the Tamil Nadu government in the disproportionate assets case.
28-Apr 
The Karnataka government appoints former AG B.V Acharya as Special Public Prosecutor in the disproportiontate assets case.
29-Apr 
The Union Cabinet launches the Smart Cities Mission and the Atal Mission for Rajuvenation and Urban Transformation which replaces the JNNRUM with a total outly of nearly Rs. 1,00,000 crore.
MAY
03-May 
President Pranab Mulkherjee presents of Kangana Ranaut the 62nd National Film Award for best Actress for her role in Queen and award for best fature film to debut director Chaitanya Tamhane.
06-May
A Mumbai sessions court holds Bollywood actor Salman Khan guilty of homicide in the September 28,2002 hit - and run case and sentenceshim to 5-years RI.
The Consitution (122nd Amendment) bill for introduction of goods and service tax sails through the Lok Sabha.
The Rajya Sabha unanimously passes the Constitution (119th) Amendment Bill to enable the ratification of the Land Boundray Agreement with Bangaladesh hanging fire since 1974.
Sensex tanks 723 points to close at 26717.37 on huge selloff by FILs.
07-May 
The Juvenile Justice (care and Protection of Children) Bills that provides for typing juveniles aged between 16 and 18 years for heinous crime under laws for adults is passed by the Lok Shaba.
Parliament unanimously approves the Constitution (119th Amendment) Bill, operationalsing the Land Boundary Agreement with Bangaladesh.
Achal Kumar Jyoti,a former Chief Secretary of Gujarat is appointed Election Commissioner.
The RJD exples five time MR RAjesh Ranjari alias Pappu YAdav from the party for six years.
08-May 
The Bombay High Court suspends the five year jail term awarded to actor Salman Khan and grants him bail.
09-May 
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches two insurance schemes, Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana and the Atal Bima Yojana at a function in Kolkata.
Veteran journalist Vinod Mehta is posthumously honoured with the G.K. Reddy Memorial National Award at a function in New Delhi.
10-May 
Boolywood veteran Shashi Kappor presented with the Dadasaheb Phalke award by the Union I & B Minister Arun Jaitley in Mumbai.
11-May 
The Karnataka High Court acquits former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa and three others in the disproportionate assets case. Her disqualification under the RPA stands negated.
The Lok Shaba passes the Undiscloed Foreign Income and Assets (Imposition of Tax) Bill, 2015.
A Metropolitan sessions court in Hyderabad grants bail of former Satyam Computers Chairman B.Ramalinga Raju and nine others.
India names private banker K.V Kamath as the first president of the $100-billion BRICS bank named New Development Bank.
12-May 
Seventeen persons are killed across east and north Indian in tremotrs tiggered by fresh after shocks of the quake in Nepal.
Sensex trumbles by 629.82 points to close at 26877.48.
13-May 
In a landmark judgement, the Supreme Court restrains the government from publishing the photographs of political leaders, ministers or prominent persons in government advertisements.
The Rajya Sabha approves the black money (undisclosed Foreign income and assets) and Imposition of Tax bill, 2015.
14-May 
SBI launches SBI in Touch, its contactless debit and credit card using latest near field technology.
17-May 
Mr.N. Ram, Chairman Kasturi and Sons Ltd., presents the first Rangeswami Parthasarathy Memorial Award to Journalist Shekhar Gupta at a function in chennai.
The Supreme Court unholds the constitutional validity of the National Company Law Tribunal and its appellate forum under the Companies Act of 2013.
18-May 
Aruna Shanbaug, former nurse at Mumbai's King Edward Memorial Hospital dies of pneumonia after being a coma since November 27, 1973 following a sexual as sault by a ward boy.
21-May 
The AIADMK Legislature Partly elects Jayalaithaa leader. O.Panneerselvam resings as Chief Minister.
23-May 
Jayalalithaa takes oath as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister for the fifth timw at a function in Chennai.  A new Cabinet takes office.
24-May 
The heat wave toll in A.P and Telangana touches 470.
25-May 
The Delhi High Court rules that the Delhi government's ACB has jurisdiction to arrest police personnel.
27-May 
The Tripura government revokes the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, in force since February 1997.
28-May 
Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar is crowned the new Maharaja at the Amba Vilas Palace in Mysuru.
29-May 
Pradeep Kumar Sinha is appointed Cabinet Secretary.
The TDP goes national at the Mahanadu in Hyderabad.
30-May 
The U.P governement files a case against Nestle India after excess lead is detected in Magginoodles.
Chennai Metro gets the final approval for starting operations.
31-May 
President Pranab Mukherjee repromulgates the Land Ordinance for the third time.
JUNE
01-Jun
The Karnataga Cabinet decides to file an appeal in the Supreme Court against verdict acquitting Jayalalithaa and three others in the disproportionate assets case.
The trial run of the Kolkata Dhaka-Agartala bus service begins in Kolkata.
02-Jun 
The Hindu Business Line launches www.bloncampus.com or BLOC, a first of its kind wedsite tailored for B-Schoolers and B-School aspirants.
Sensex plummets 660.61points to close 27188.38
03-Jun 
The Centre lodges a complaint against Nestle Maggi Noodles with the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commision.
04-Jun 
Tamil Nadu bans the manufacture stocking and sale of Maggi and three other noodle brands for three months.
05-Jun 
Nestle withdraws Maggi and the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India orders recall of all nine varieties of the noodles from the market.
07-Jun 
Manabi Bandyopadhyay becomes the nations first openly transgender college principal as she takes charge at Krishnagar Women's College in Kolkata.
10-Jun
The Madras High Court dismisses petitions by Sun TV and Kal Comm Pvt Ltd, against attachment of assets by the ED in the Aircel Maxis case.
K.V. Chowdhary takes oath as CVC and Vijay Sharma is sworn in as Chief of Information Commissioner, in New Delhi.
Neyveli Santhanagopalan (Carnatic vocal), Ashwini Bhide Deshpande (Hindustani vocal), Ronu Majumdar (flute) among 36 artists chosen for the Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards for 2014.
12-Jun 
Telangana announces its maiden industrial policy with a unique feature to cut delays - right to clearance, in Hyderabad.
N.L.Beno Zephine, a Chennai resident becomes the first visually challenged to be selected for the IFS.
13-Jun 
The Centre launches an insurance pool of Rs. 1,500 crore mandatory under the civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act.
15-Jun 
The Supreme Court cancels the All India Pre Medical and Pre Dental Entrance Test held on May 3, 2015 due to exam fraud.
Ex- Servicemen launch an indefinite fast across the country seeking implementation of the One Rank One Pension scheme.
18-Jun 
At least 102 people are killed after consuming illicit liquor at Malvani in Malad, Mumbai.
19-Jun 
Mumbai comes to a standstill following heavy torrential rain measuring close to 300mm over 24 hours.
21-Jun 
Prime Minister Narendra Modi leads 35,985 people in breaking the Guinness World Record for the largest number of people doing Yoga at Rajpath, New Delhi on the occasion of the first International Day of Yoga.
22-Jun 
Thirtyseven persons travel by the first commercial bus service (Kolkata-Dhaka- Agartala) which took off from Karunamayee Stand in Saly Lake.
23-Jun 
The Karnataka government files an SLP in the Supreme Court against the acquittal of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in the dispoportionate assets case.
24-Jun 
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches Housing for All, Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation and Smart Cities schemes in New Delhi.
Gokulraj, a Dalit youth is found murdered with head severed on a railway track near Pallipalayam, Tiruchengode, Tamil Nadu.
29-Jun 
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa inaugurates the Metro Rail network in Chennai, currently begins operated from Koyambedu to Alandur, through video conferencting from the Secretariat. The Hindu artwork on special cover.
30-Jun
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa wins the Radhakrishnan Nagar Assembly by- poll with a record margin of over 1.50 lakh votes.
Telangana TDP MLA A.Revnath Reddy arrested in a cash for vote case is granted conditional bail by the Hyderabad High Court.
JULY
01-Jul 
Dignity of a woman is part of her non-perishable and immortal self"" holds, the Supreme Court ruling out room for compromise in rape cases.
The Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act comes into force.
02-Jul 
Maharashtra decides to lable students of madrasas or vedicschool ""Uneducated"".
The External Affairs Ministry reinstates IFS office Devyani Khobragade and posts her to the newly created ""States division""
04-Jul 
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa takes oath as an MLA at the Secretaiat.
The mystery surrounding the yapam scam in Madhya Pradesh turns murkier after Akshay Singh, a T.V journalist dies at Meghnagar area near Jhabua town soon after inter viewing the parents of an accused who herself was found dead in 2012.
Ira Singhal from Delhi, becomes the first physically challenged woman to top the civil Services exam.
05-Jul 
The Vyapam claims another victim with Arun Sharma Dean of the Jabapur-based Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Medical College, being found dead in Delhi.
06-Jul 
The Chennai Corporation announces a major decision permitting residents to build houses on land of any size in the city.
The DMK challenges in the Supreme Court the acquittal of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in the disproportionate assets case.
The Supreme Court rules unwed mother can be the sole gurdian of a minor child.
08-Jul 
Sensex slumps by 483.97 points to close at 27687.72 fuelled by the Chinese equity turnmoil.
10-Jul 
The ISRO's PSLV C-28 launches five satellites weighting 1,440 kg for a U.K based company from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
11-Jul 
The Madras High Court recalls order suggesting mediation between a rape survivor and the convict.
13-Jul 
The CBI begins probe into the Vyapam scam (fraud in the pre- medical tests held from 2006-2013) 14-Jul - The R.M.Lodha panel on the IPL betting scandal suspends CSK and RR for two years. Gurunath Meiyappan and Raj Kundra slapped with life ban.
At least 27 persons are killed and 36 injured in a stampede at the Godavari Maha Pushkaram in Rajahmundry Andhra Pradesh.
15-Jul 
The Manipur Regulation of Visitors Tenants and Migrand Worksers Bill 2015 Passed on March 16 is withdrawn at a special Assembly session, following protests during which a student died in police firing (on July 8)
17-Jul 
The All India Railway Helpline number 1512, for victims of crimes on railway property is unveiled at a function in New Delhi.
21-Jul 
The Supreme Court lifts its year long embargo on State governments from freeing life convicts. Rajiv killers cannot be freed.
23-Jul 
Nobel laureate and climate scientist R.K. Pachauri is removed as Director General of TERI.
25-Jul 
A seesions court in New delhi discharges 36 accused, including cricketers S.Sreeanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan in the IPL spot fixing case of 2013.
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi presents The Hindu's senior journalist Gargi Parsai with the ICAR award for Excellence in Journalism in Agricultural Research and Development, 2014, at a function in Patna.
27-Jul 
Seven persons including an SP Baljit Singh are killed in an attack on a police station in Dinanagar in Punjab's Gurdaspur district.
A.P.J Abdul Kalam (83), former President who played a key role in India's nuclear tests dies after collapsing on stage during a lecture at the IIM in shillong Meghalaya.
The Supreme Court refuses to stay Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jyalalithaa's acquittal in the disproprtionate assets case.
28-Jul 
Mumbai's iconic dabbawallas go online with the launch of www.dabbewale.com
29-Jul 
The Supreme Court dismisses the review ptition filed by the then UPA government challenging the commutation of death penalty to life term of three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
30-Jul 
The 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon is hanged at the Nagpur central prison hardly two hours after Supreme Court rejects his petition.
The former president A.P.J Abdul Kalam is laid to rest with full state honours in Pei Karumbu village in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu.
31-Jul 
Gandhian and anti-li-quor crusader Sasi Perumal dies during a protest atop a mobile phone tower near Marthandam in Tamil Nadu's Kanyakumari district.
The former President A.P.J abdul Kalam's birthday, October 15, to be observed as ""Youth Awakening Day"" e very year in Tamil Nadu.
AUGUST 
01-Aug 
At least 14,854 people join india after shedding a stateless existence for years in 51 Bangladesh enclaves.
03-Aug 
The government signs a peace deal with the NSCN (IM) in New Delhi.
The flood toll in west Bengal goes up to 69 and 2.1 lakh people sheltered in over 1,500 relief camps.
The Supreme Court dismisses the appeals of the former Haryana Chief Minister O.P Chautala, his son Ajay Chautala and three others against their conviction on January 16, 2013 in the teacher's recruitment scam case of 2000.
Amalendu krishna of the TIFR, Mumbai wins the Ramanujan Prize for 2015.
04-Aug 
Al least 25 persons are killed after several coaches of the Kamayani Express and the Janata Express derail and plunge into the Machak river while crossing flooded tracks near Harda in Madhya Pradesh.
05-Aug
Two BSF jawans Rocky and Suvendu Singh are killed and eight injured in an attack on a convoy near Udhampur, J&K, A.Pakistani militant is shot dead and another captured.
A Mumbai special court issues an NBW against former IPL Commisioner Lalit Modi in London since 2010.
07-Aug 
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates the first National Handloom Day in Chennai and launches the Indian Handloom Mark.
The Tripura Assembly passes a resolution against death penalty.
10-Aug 
Nivin Pauly(Bangalore Days and 1983) shares the Best Actor Award with Sudev Nair (My Life Partner) at the Kerala State Flim awards for 2014. Nazriya Nazim bags Best Actress Award for Om Shanthi Oshana and Bangalore days.
11-Aug 
Aadhaar not mandatory, says the Supreme Court.
The Prem Bhatia Memorial Award for 2015 is awarded to Suhansini Haidar, Diplomatic and Strategic Affairs Editor with The Hindu.
The government sues Nestle, manufacturer of Magi Noodles for Rs. 639 crore.
12-Aug 
The Lok Sabha debates the Lalit Modi saga on the penultimate day of the mansoon session.
The Supreme Court stays the Madras High Court order cancelling the anticipatory bail of former Union Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran in the illegal phone exchange case.
13-Aug 
The Bombay High Court revokes the nationwide ban on Maggi Noodles, but order fresh tests on all variants of the product.
14-Aug 
Delhi police try to evict ex-servicemen on a relay hunger srike for 61 days at Janter Manter seeking implementation of OROP.
15-Aug 
Prime Minister Narendr Modi announces the ""Start -up India Stand Up India"" scheme, in his address during the 69th Independence Day celebration in New Delhi.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa presents the first A.P.J. abdul Kalam Award to ISRO selentist N.Valarmathi.
17-Aug
The Supreme Court up-holds the convection of Vikas Yadav, Vishal Yadav in the 2002 murder of Nitish Kartara, an MBA graduate.
Vipul Garg (17) from Haryana's Jind district tops the All India Pre- Medical Test entrance exam 2015.
19-Aug 
India Post, Reliance Industries Ltd. Among 11 entities granted in principle nod by the RBI for setting up payment banks.
The Suprene Courts allows the real estate magnates Gopal and Sushil Ansal to walk free in the 1997 Uphaar Cinema fire case.
21-Aug 
The Gujarat High Court stays the government notification making voting compulsory in the civic bodies and panchat polls.
24-Aug 
Sensex tumbles by 1624.51 points to close at 25741.56.
25-Aug 
Police crackdown after a mammoth rally of Patels in Ahmedabad, Gujarat seeking quota in jobstriggers violence. Hardik patel, spearhead briefly detained.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalithaa nnouncess a comprehensive AMMA Master Health- Check- Up plan in the Assembly.
Indrani Mukherjea, former CEO of INX Media Limited is held by the Mumbai police for the murder of her daughter Sheena Bora in Raigad district on apirl 24, 2012.
26-Aug 
Six persons are killed as the Gujarat bandh turns iolent. Army called in.
The Supreme Court suspends all proceedings against the two Italian marines accused of killing two Indian fishermen off the Kerala coast in 2012.
The Centre unveils a list of 98 smart cities, with Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu taking the largest share of developing 13 cities and 12 respectively.
The ISRO lanuches communication satellite GSAT-6, with an indigenous cryogenic stage aboard a GSLC D-6 rocket from Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.
28-Aug 
The NDA government allows the land acquistion ordinance to lapse.
30-Aug 
Veteran Kannada writer M.M.Kalburgi (77) known for his stand agaist superstition is shot dead at his home at Kalyan Nagar in Dharwad, Karnataka.
31-Aug
The Supreme Court re-stores the Jain religious practice of ritualistic fast unto death staying the August 10 order of a Division Bench of the Rajasthan high Court.
Rajiv Mehrishi replaces L.C.Goyal as Union Home Secretary.
Five persons are killed during a general strike in Manipur to protest the passage of Protection of Manipur People's Bill, 2015 and two amendment bills in the Assembly.
SEPTEMBER 
01-Sep 
Three persons are killed in police firing on a mob in Minipur's Churachandpur district as the protests against the passage of bills escalate.
Nine persosn are sentenced to life by a Special Court in Thiruvananthapuram for the August 21,2009 murder of businessman Paul Muthoot George near Nedumudy in Kerala's Alappuzha district.
02-Sep
The Union Cabinet given nod for a new policy for the auction of 69 small and marginal oil fields to private and foreign firms.
The nationwide strike by workers seeking hike in minimum wages, hits banking and transport services. *The Government cancels the registration of Greenpeace India.
04-Sep 
The Delhi High Court allows women to be granted permanent commission in the Navy.
Sensex plummets by 563 points to end at 25201.90 following heavy selling in global stocks.
05-Sep 
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar announces the implementation of the one rank one pension (OROP) scheme for ex-servicemen.
06-Sep 
Veterans call of stir after Prime Minister Narendra Modi clarifies that all service personnel who had taken premature retirement are also entitled to OROP.
07-Sep 
An Army Court martial awards lifer to six of its personnel for the killing of three youth on Aprill 29, 2010 in the Machil Sector of Kupwara district in J&K in a fake encounter.
09-Sep 
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha inaugurates projects worth Rs. 2,568 crore at the opening of the first Global Investors Meet 2015, in Chennai.
The Gandhi Peace Prize is be stowed on the ISRO and accepted by it Chairman A.S.Kiran Kumar from President Pranab Mukherjee, at the Rahtrapati Bhavan.
12-Sep 
At least 89 people are killed and over 100 injured after an explosion in Petlawad town of Jhabua district, Madhya Pradesh.
16-Sep
Majed Hassan Ashoor, the Saudi arabian diplomat accused of sexual assault on two Nepali maids leaves India.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu completes the rivers Godavari-Krishna link as part of the Pattiseema project in West Godavari district.
The RBI grants in 'principle' approval for 10 firms to set up small finance banks.
17-Sep
The Supreme Court stays the operation of a new panchayat law in Haryana laying down minimum education qualifications to contest local bodies polls.
18-Sep 
The West Bengal Government declassifies 64 files relating to subhas chandra bose.
19-Sep 
The detention of Hardik Patel, leader of the Patidar Andolan Samithi by the Surat police triggers violence. Gujarat government suspends Internet services on mobile across the state.
21-Sep
The Hindu makes public online destruction of documents regarding a military intelligence unit set up during Gen. V.K. Singh's tenure. An army general court martial had on May 9,2015 sentenced havailder Sham Das D. to 10 years RI for leaking them.
The Rajesthan Assembly decides to increase quota limit to 68 percent. reservation for Gujjars and 14 % to Economically Backward Classes passed.
24-Sep 
The Centre clears the Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organised Crime Bill 2015 and sends it to the President for assent.
26-Sep 
The CBI registers a case against Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, his wife and associates in a disproportionate assets case after raids at 13 places.
28-Sep 
The ISRO launches Asstrosat, its first dedicated multiwavelength space observatory into space, besides six satellites for Canada, Indonesia and the U.S.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa launches ""Amma mobile phones"", a scheme under which women SHG trainers are to be provided cellphones.
29-Sep 
The government flags off its green highways (plantation, Transplantation and Maintenance) Policy 2015 at a function in New Delhi.
30-Sep
A special court in Mumbai awards death sentence to five and lifer to seven persons for the July 11, 2006 serial train blasts.
For the first time in the history of Indian judiciary, the Madras High Court allews live telecast of contempt proceedlings against two Madurai advocates for their activities against the compulsory helmet rule.
OCTOBER 
03-Oct 
Vishal, the son of a local BJP leader accused on inciting a mob to lynch Mohammed Akhlaque over rumours of cow slaughter in Bishara village in Dadri, Uttar pradesh on Septermber 28 is arrested.
05-Oct
India and Germany agree to form the Climate and Renewable Energy Alliance.
06-Oct
Maharashtra Cabinet decides to revive Ratnagiri Gas and Power Private Limited - the erst-while Dabhol Power Project.
Eminent litterateur Nayantara Sahgal returns her Sahitya Akadeni award in protest against the killing of writer M.M. Kalburgi and rationalist Goving Pansare.
07-Oct 
The Central governemtn gives nod for a National War Memorial and a National War Museum at Princess Park near India Gate, New Delhi.
The Supreme Court refers the Aadhaar issue to Constitution Bench.
08-Oct 
The Bambay High Court sets aside a tax demand of Rs. 3,700 crore imposed on Vodafone India by the IT authorities.
09-Oct 
Noted writer Shashi Deshpande quits the Sahitya Akademi Council.
10-Oct - Poet K.Satchidanandan and feminist writer Sara Joseph, both from Kerala quit Sahitya Akademi and return awards.
The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet deeides to rename Rajahmundry as Ramahendravaram.
12-Oct 
Fiftyseven per cent voting is recorded in phase I of Bihar Assembly polls.
13-Oct 
Six persons are held in connection with the alleged overseas transfer of over Rs. 3,000 crore to Hong Kong and Dubai in a case of trade-based money-laundering.
14-Oct 
The government to begin declassification of Netaji Subbhas Chandra Bose files from January 23,1016. *Kerala plantation labour call of stir.
15-Oct 
The Supreme Court stays ban on the operation of dance bars in Mumbai.
The Government cannot insist of production of Aadhar card, rules the Supreme Court.
16-Oct 
The Supreme Court rejects the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) Act and the 99th Constitutional Amendment. Collegium system is operative again.
Over 55 per cent voting recorded in the second phase of Bihar Assembly polls.
17-Oct 
National Blood Policy modified. Blood banks can borrow from one another in case of shortage.
19-Oct 
The Gujarat police arrests Hardik Patel on sedition charges in Rajkot.
The Prime Minister lists out a a seven-point agenda to tone up working of state-owned banks at the inauguration of the IDFC Bank, in New Delhi.
20-Oct 
The Karnataka Cabinet Decides to ban Manufature, sale and use of plastic carrybags, irrespective of thickness.
A Fact Track court in New Delhi convicts Uber cab driver Shiv Kumar Yadav for sexually assaulting a woman executive on December 5,2014.
Two Dalit childern, including an infant are burnt to death after their house is set ablize in Sunperh village in Haryana's Faridabad district.
22-Oct 
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi lays the foundation for Amaravati, the ""People's Capital"" of Andhra Pradesh at Uddandrayunipalem on the banks of the Krishna between Vijayawada and Guntur.
23-Oct 
The Sahitya Akademi, passes resolution condemning the killing of Kannada writer M.M.Kalburgi, at an emergency meeting in New Delhi.
24-Oct 
The first batch of women fighter pilots will noin the IAF by June 2017 following the Ministry of Defence nod.
25-Oct 
The Hindu group launches the Sportstar digital edition in Chennai.
26-Oct 
Geeta, a differently abled womana who had wandered across the India- Pakistan border in 2002 and looked after by the Edhi Foundation in Karachi arrives in Delhi.
A massive earthquake rocks north India. Jammu Kashmir badly hit.
Navy opens its doors to women pilots, who for the time being shore based.
The Maharashtra Government withdraws circular on sedition.
27-Oct 
The Gujarat High Court upholds sedition charges against Patel agitation leader Hardik Patel. CSIR labs told be fend for themselves.
CSIR labs told to fend for themselves.
28-Oct - Decumentary film-maker Anand Patwardhan returns his national award along with the FTTI students who end their 139 -day strike.
Facebook's free Basics and Zero Rating did not violate Net neutrality, says CEO Mark Zuckerburg in a town hall-style event on the IIT, Delhi compus.
Fiftythree per cent voing is registered in the third phase of Bihar Assembly polls.
Surrogacy will be altruistic and not commercial, and limited to ""infertile Indian married couples and not be foreigners"", the Centre informs the Supreme Court.
The Union Health Ministry shuts down the National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau.
29-Oct
The Delhi Declaration 2015, unveiled at the conclusion of the India-Africa Forum Summit calls for a global plan to combat cross-border terrorism and faster reform of the UNSC.
30-Oct
Chandrabhan Snap, convicted of raping and murdering techie Esther Anuhya is sentenced to death by a special women's court in Mumbai.
The Nadu Governor K. Rosaiah presents The Hindu Saregama M.S. Subbulakshmi Award 2015 to S. Adithyanarayanan, a methematics student, in Chennai.
31-Oct 
Judiciary must reinvent itself through introspection and selfcorrection as and when necessary, says President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurating the golden jubilee fete of the Delhi High Court.
India's tallest person and Asia's second tallest, Kolipaka Gattaiah, dies of heart attack while being treated at a hospital in Hyderabed.
NOVEMBER
01-Nov 
Bihar registers 57.59 per cent turnout in phase IV of Assembly polls.
03-Nov 
The former Janata Del MLA, Gurusharan Chhabra, dies after a month-long hunger strike to demand a stronger and indetendent Lok Ayukta and a State-wide ban on liquor, in Jaipur.
A Fast Track court in New Delhi sentences to lifer Uber cab driver Shiv Kumar Yadav for raping a woman executive on Dec.5,2014.
Haryana drops chargesheet against senior IAS officer Ashok Khemka.
04-Nov
Sarika, the daughter-in-law of former congress MP S.Rajaiah and her three sons are charred to death at their house in Warangal.
The collegium system is back and the CJI H.L.Dattu suggests the name of Justice Tirath Singh Thakur to be his successor.
A special court in Mumbai frames charges against Sayed Zebiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal in the November 26,2008, serial terror strikes.
The Registrar of Societies in Tamil Nadu cancels the registration of Greenpeace India as a society.
05-Nov 
The Supreme Court throws open the collegium system to public scrutiny.
Filmmakers Kundan Shah and Saeed Mirza among two dozen artists to return national awards.
A19-years-old is raped in a moving bus in Bengaluru.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveils the Gold Monetisation Scheme, and Gold Coin and Bullion Scheme, at a functionin New Delhi.
06-Nov 
The government imposes two new levies - a 0.5 per cent Swachh Bharat Cess and a 2per cent regional connectivity cess on international air travel and flights between metros and big cities.
The Kerala Regulation of Hartals Bill, 2015 gets State Cabinet nod.
Underworld don Chhota Rajan is arrested after being brought to New Delhi from Indonesia.
P.M. Bharagava, well-known scientist and founder-director of CCMB, return the Padma Bhushan received by him in 1986 to president Pranab Mukherjee.
07-Nov 
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces an economic package of Rs. 80,000 crore for J&K at a function in Srinagar.
The Union Government notifies the one rank one pension scheme, but ex-servicemen reject it.
08-Nov 
The Nitish Kumar-lalu Prasad duo leads the Grand Alliance toa historic, two-thirds majority in the Bihar Assembly polls.
09-Nov 
Heavy rain lashes the coastal districts of Tamil Nadu, with Neyveli receiving 45cm within a few hours.
Parts of Puduherry, Chennai too hit. Cuddalore gets 266 mm in two days.
The Dalai Lama presents the Abdul Kalam Seva Ratna Awards 2015 at a function in Chennai.
Nestle India resumes sale of Maggi noodles.
10-Nov
Kerala Finance Minister, K.M. Mani resigns over the bar bribery allegations.
The Centre announces 'Big Bank' FDI reforms, easing norms across 15 sectors, including defence, banking.
11-Nov 
Anti-corruption activist and AAP leader Mayank Gandhi quits the party National Executive.
16-Nov
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa announces Rs. 500 crore for relief and rehabilitation in the wake of the rain havoc in the State. People in many marooned localities in Chennai are airlifted and ferried by boats.
The CISF takes over security in Madras High Court.
17-Nov
Chittoor Mayor Katari Anuradha and her husbank Katari Mohan both belonging to the TDP are killed in an attack at the chamber.
18-Nov 
President Pranab Mukherjee appoints Supreme Court Judge Justice C.P. Thakur as the 43rd CJI with effect from Dec.3,
A Mumbai special court allows plea to make Pakistan-born American torror operative David Coleman Headley, an accused in the November 26,2008 attackes.
19-Nov
The CBI arrests former TV network owner Peter Mukherjea in the Sheena Bora murder case.
The first batch of 62 persons residing in Bangladesh enclaves arrive in West Bengal's Cooch behar District.
20-Nov 
Nitish Kumar is sworn in Bihar Chief Minister for the fifth time.
The Madras High Court stays for four weeks the Tamil Nadu Government's order cancelling the registration of Greenpeace India.
The Supreme Court opens the door for Navy women officers released from service after September 26,2008 to return to the force.
Music meastro Ilayaraja is confered with the Centenary Award at the 46th IFFI inaugural in Panaji, Goa.
21-Nov 
The Wednesday Child form hungary and Ella from Colombia are given the best film and director awards at the 21st Kolkata International Film Festival.
23-Nov 
The Centre sanctions Rs. 939.63 crore as immediate flood relief to Tamil Nadu.
The Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry temporarily bars 20 advocates for ""unruly behaviour"" during a sit-in on September 13 in the First Court of the Madras High Court.
25-Nov 
Three militants of the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Muhammed are killed in a gunfight with armymen after they launch an attack on a camp at Tangdhar, Kupwara district.
26-Nov 
Parliament holds a discussion to commemorate the Constitution and its framer Dr. B.R.Ambedkar.
27-Nov 
The Hindu launches its Mumbai Edition.
28-Nov 
Novelist Arundhati Roy is presented the Mahatma Phule Samata Award in Pune.
29-Nov
Two espionage rackets with links to Pakistan's ISI are busted in Jammu and Kolkata, and five persons are held.
30-Nov 
Chennai records 1049.3 mm rainfall, missing the 1088.4 mm registered in November 1918.
Chandrasekhar alias Chintu, prime accused in the murder of Chittoor Mayor Katari Anuradha and her husband Katari Mohan surrenders in Court.
Advanture drama Embrace of the Serpent bags the Golden Peacock for Best film at the IFFI 2015 in Goa.
DECEMBER 
01-Dec 
Chennai registeres a record 20.4 cm rain and Tambaram 49 cm.
02-Dec
The seven life-term convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case merit no hope of freedom, holds the Supreme Court.
Rain lashes Puducherry and the region records 461.40 mm over two days.
Senior JD (U) leader Vijay kumar Chaudhary is elected Bihar Assembly Speaker.
03-Dec
Prime Minister, Narendra modi Undertakes an aerial survey of the rain-hit areas of Chennai and announces and additional Rs. 1,000/- crore package. Toll touches 269. The Army columns and 20 NDRF teams to scale up rescue operations.
04-Dec
Eighteen patients are killed between Dec.2 and 3 at the MLOT International in Manapakkam, Chennai following power failure after the hospital is flooded owing to the Adyar river breaching its banks.
07-Dec
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa orders compensation packages for the flood-hit.
The Karnataka Lokayukta Y. Bhaskar Rao, whose son was arrested in an 'extortion racket', resigns.
09-Dec 
The Union Cabinet clears a Rs.4,000-crore package to spur the shipbuilding industry.
The Hindu launches India for Chennai (#India for Chennai), a national editorial campaing to collect funds to help the rain-hit.
10-Dec
The Bombay High Court acquits actor Salman Khan of all charges in the September 28, 2002 hit-and-run case in which oner person died outside the American Express Bakery in Bandra.
The Supreme Court uploading the Haryana Panchayati Raj (Amendment) Act, 2015 which mandated that only those having ""minimum"" educational qualifications were eligible to contest panchayat polls.
A special court in Mumbai grants pardon to LeT operative David Coleman Headley and accepts his proposal to turn approver in the November 26, 2008 terror attracks. the Centre announces the Tamil Nadu floods to be a 'Calamity of Severe Nature'. Toll put at 347.
11-Dec 
Malayalam film Ottal (The Trap) wins four top awards at the IFFK.
Three persons are sentenced to 10 years RI in the February 5, 2012 park street gangrape case in Kolkata.
12-Dec 
India and Japan announce a series of military and strategic agreements.
The bodies of noted artist Hema Upadhyay and her lawyer Harish Bhambhani ae found in a sewage drain in Kandivali, Mumbai.
13-Dec 
Actor Dileep Kumar is presented the Padma Vibhushan award by Home Minister, Rajanth Singh at his home in Bandra, Mumbai.
14-Dec 
Justice L. Narasimha Reddy is appointed the one-men judicial commission to look into OROP implementation.
The Government notifies new rules for NGOs getting foreign funds.
15-Dec 
A CBI raid on the secretariat of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal triggers a political storm.
Sangita Kalanidhi M.S. Subbulakshmi award is conferred on Carnatic vocalist Sanjay Subrahmanyan at the Music Academy in Chennai.
16-Dec 
Appointment of priests in Tamil Nadu temples as per Agamas not a violation of the right to equality, rules the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court bans registration of luxuray diesel vehicles in the National Capital Region of Delhi up to March 31,2016.
The ISRO launches six Singapore satellites from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet decides to appoint a judicial commision to probe 'call money sex racket.'
17-Dec 
Tamil writer A. Madhavan is chosen for the 2015 Sahitya Akademi award for his collected prose writings Ilakkiya Chuvadukal.
BJP and rebel Congress MPs 'vote out' Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabarn Tuki and elect Kalikho Pal. The Gawahati High Court stays all decisions.
The Union Cabinet gives nod for Its, 40,000-crore defence deal.
18-Dec
Mumbai's iconic boulevard Marine Drive, also popularly called the Queen's Necklace completes 100 years.
Former Defence Secretary R.K. Mathur is named new Chief Information Commissioner.
19-Dec 
A Delhi court grants conditional bail to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald case.
20-Dec The youngest convict in the December 16,2012 Delhi gangrape is released and moved to the care and protection of an NGO.
21-Dec 
A court in Rohtak sentences to death seven accused in the gangrape-cum-murder of a Nepali women in February 2015.
22-Dec
The Rajya Sabha clears the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Childern) Bill.
Artist Chintan Upadyay is arrested for the murder of his wife Hema and har lawyer Harish Bhambhani.
23-Dec 
The BJP suspends Darbhanga MP Kirti Azad for levelling corruption charges in DDCA affairs.
The UP police file chargesheet against 15 in the Dadri lynching case.
The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court cancels the bail of DU professor G.N. Saibaba held in May for alleged Maoist links.
24-Dec
The Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal unveils the blue-print for the odd-even car rollout from january1.
The ULFA general secretary Anup Chetia is freed from the Guwahati Central Jail following grant of bail.
25-Dec 
Ramki Krishnan of Chennai wins the Indian Crosswordleague 2015 and bags the National Crossward Champion Trophy after the final in Patna.
26-Dec
In the first verdict in the M.P. Vyapam scam cases, two persons are awarded three years RI by a court in Indore.
28-Dec 
Meat recovered from Dadri lynching victim Mohammed Akhlaq's house mutton not beef, says probe report.
Amitabh Kant is NITI Aayog CEO. Former SG Gopal Subramanium to head panel to probe DDCA 'scam.'
An IAF man is dismissed after being held on espionage charge by the Delhi Crime Branch Police.
29-Dec 
The Supreme Court upholds the liquor policy in Kerala.
Eminent Gujarati writer Raghuveer Chaudhary is chosen for the Janpith Award for 2015.
30-Dec 
India successfully test-fires Barak NG, a surface-to-air missile system from INS Kolkata on the western seaboard.
31-Dec
Over 200 Delhi officials go on leave opposing the suspension a day earlier of two colleagues held void by the Centre.
Music maestro Ilayaraja is chosen for kerala Tourism's Nishagandhi Puraskaram 2016.
World bank extends $ 50 million loan for Nai Manzil Scheme to fund education of minorities.