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8 May – A railway strike started by 1.7 million workers of Indian Railways. The strike lasted for 20 days till 27 May 1974 and was the largest recorded industrial action in the world. [5] [6] 18 May – Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon in the Thar Desert, and becomes the sixth nation to do so ...
Smiling Buddha (MEA designation: Pokhran-I) was the code name of India's first successful nuclear weapon test on 18 May 1974. The nuclear fission type bomb was detonated in the Pokhran Test Range of the Indian Army in Rajasthan.
The 1974 railway strike in India was a major strike by the workers of Indian Railways in 1974. The strike lasted from 8 to 27 May 1974. [ 1 ] The 20-day strike by 1.7 million (17 lakh) workers is the largest recorded industrial action in the world.
The Bihar movement, also known as the JP movement, was a political movement initiated by students in the Indian state of Bihar against misrule and corruption in the state government, in 1974. It was led by the veteran Gandhian socialist Jayaprakash Narayan, popularly known as JP.
Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8 3 67600 1.18% Orissa Jana Congress: 42 1 67169 1.17% Jharkhand Party: 12 1 34786 0.60% Indian National Congress (Organization) 17 0 29103 0.51% Bharatiya Jana Sangh: 12 0 23335 0.41% All India Jharkhand Party: 8 0 15360 0.27% Socialist Unity Centre of India: 4 0 10214 0,18% All India Forward Bloc: 2 0 1080 0.02%
India's nuclear test series consists of a pair of series: Pokhran I and Pokhran II. Pokhran I was a single nuclear test conducted in 1974. List of nuclear weapons tests of India
1974 Indian novels (7 P) S. 1974 in Indian sport (4 C, 2 P) Pages in category "1974 in India" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
Defence of India rules were given an expanded mandate 5 days into the emergency and renamed as Defence and Internal Security of India Rules. Another law, Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act passed in December 1974, was also frequently used to target political opponents.