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Events in the year 2013 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

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India President Pranab Mukherjee
India Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari
India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
India Chief Justice Altamas Kabir (till 18 July)
P. Sathasivam (starting 19 July)

Governors

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Post Name
Andhra Pradesh E. S. L. Narasimhan
Arunachal Pradesh Joginder Jaswant Singh (until 28 May)
Nirbhay Sharma (starting 28 May)
Assam Janaki Ballabh Patnaik
Bihar Devanand Konwar (until 22 March)
D. Y. Patil (starting 22 March)
Chhattisgarh Shekhar Dutt
Goa Bharat Vir Wanchoo
Gujarat Kamala Beniwal
Haryana Jagannath Pahadia
Himachal Pradesh Urmila Singh
Jammu and Kashmir Narinder Nath Vohra
Jharkhand Syed Ahmed
Karnataka Hansraj Bhardwaj
Kerala Hansraj Bhardwaj (until 22 March)
Nikhil Kumar (starting 22 March)
Madhya Pradesh Ram Naresh Yadav
Maharashtra Kateekal Sankaranarayanan
Manipur Gurbachan Jagat (until 22 July)
Ashwani Kumar (23 July-31 December)
Vinod Duggal (starting 31 December)
Meghalaya Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary (until 30 June)
Krishan Kant Paul (starting 30 June)
Mizoram Vakkom Purushothaman
Nagaland Nikhil Kumar (until 21 March)
Ashwani Kumar (starting 21 March)
Odisha Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare
Punjab Shivraj Vishwanath Patil
Rajasthan Shivraj Patil (until 12 May)
Margaret Alva (starting 12 May)
Sikkim Balmiki Prasad Singh
Tamil Nadu Konijeti Rosaiah
Tripura Dnyandeo Yashwantrao Patil
Uttar Pradesh Banwari Lal Joshi
Uttarakhand Margaret Alva (until 14 May)
Aziz Qureshi (starting 14 May)
West Bengal M.K. Narayanan

Events

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100th Indian Science Congress

January - March

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April - June

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July - September

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October - December

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Others

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  • National income - 112,335,216 million
  • Summer: Droughts in Maharashtra surpasses the previous worst famine record of 1972. The droughts were caused by low rainfall in June to October 2012.[45]
  • January–March: The Indian economy grew at a rate of 4.8% in the January–March quarter of the 2012–13 fiscal year.[46]
  • April–June: The GDP showed a 4.4% growth in the first quarter of the 2013–2014 fiscal year.[47]
  • July–September: The GDP grew at 4.8% in the second quarter of the 2013–2014 fiscal year.[48]

Transport and infrastructure

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January

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July

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November

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December

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Cinema

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  • 3 May: Indian cinema completes 100 years. The first Indian silent film Raja Harishchandra was released in 1913.[53]

Bollywood

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Sandalwood

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Malayalam

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Marathi

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Tamil cinema

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Tollywood

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Sports

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January

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February

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April

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May

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June

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July

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  • 3–7 July: 2013 Asian Athletics Championship continental tournament, winner China with 15 gold medals.

September

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  • 29 September: India beat Malaysia 3–0 to win Sultan of Johor Cup (Under 21).[58]

October

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November

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December

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Unknown

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Publications

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Deaths

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January

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February

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March

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  • 11 March – Teja Narla, Indian child actor (born 1996)
  • 11 March – Sripada Pinakapani, Carnatic Vocalist (born 3 August 1913) .[65]

April

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May

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June

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July

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  • 4 July - Satish Tare, Marathi actor
Pran
  • 12 July – Pran, Actor (born 1920)
  • 18 July - Vaali, Writer and poet (born 1931)
  • 28 July- Jagdish Raj, actor

October

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November

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December

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See also

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References

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