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2021) 30 September – Hrishikesh Mukherjee, film director (died 2006). 1 October – Allu Rama Lingaiah, actor (died 2004). 20 October – Syed Masood Hassan Shihab Dehlvi, Writer and Poet (d. 1990 in Pakistan) 11 December – Dilip Kumar, actor and politician (died 2021).
This is a timeline of Indian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in India and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of India. Also see the list of governors-general of India, list of prime ministers of India and list of years in India.
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1 January – India begins its two-year tenure (2021–22) as a non-permanent member of the UNSC. [1] 2 January – India approves two coronavirus vaccines, Bharat Biotech's "Covaxin" and the Oxford/AstraZeneca "Covishield", for emergency use. [2] [3] Experts raised questions over the efficacy of Covaxin and a lack of transparency in trials. [4 ...
India is self-sufficient in the production of food such as food grains [a] including wheat and rice; and other categories such as fruits, vegetables, milk and meat among others. Yet, despite this, nutrition and hunger remain a serious challenge in the country. [76] [77] In 2021, India ranked 101 out of 116 countries in the Global Hunger Index. [78]
The first European to reach India via the Atlantic Ocean was the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, who reached Calicut in 1498 in search of spice. [3] Just over a century later, the Dutch and English established trading outposts on the Indian subcontinent, with the first English trading post set up at Surat in 1613.
The Indian economy also shrunk in percentage terms by double digit numbers. In September 2020, India's health minister Harsh Vardhan stated that the country planned to approve and begin distribution of a vaccine by the first quarter of 2021. [194] Vaccination against COVID-19 started in India on 16 January 2021.
18 May – D. Pandian, politician (died 2021). 1 June – Ashis Roy, marathon runner. 7 June – M. S. Narasimhan, mathematician (died 2021). 12 June – Padmini, actress and dancer (died 2006). 12 June – E. Sreedharan, IES. 22 June Sharad Moreshwar Hardikar, orthopedic surgeon. Amrish Puri Amrish Puri, actor (died 2005).