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2018 in India

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Events in the year 2018 in the Republic of India.

Government of India

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Central government

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Photo Post Name
President of India Ram Nath Kovind
Vice-President of India

Chairman of Rajya Sabha

Venkaiah Naidu
Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi
Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi
Speaker of the Lok Sabha Sumitra Mahajan
Chief Election Commissioner of India Sunil Arora

State governments

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State Governor Chief Minister Chief Justice
Andhra Pradesh E.S.L Narasimhan Nara Chandra Babu Naidu Ranganathan(Hyderabad High Court)
Arunachal Pradesh B. D. Mishra Pema Khandu Ajit Singh (Gauhati High Court)
Assam Jagdish Mukhi Sarbananda Sonowal Ajit Singh (Gauhati High Court)
Bihar Lalji Tandon Nitish Kumar Rajendra Menon (Patna High Court)
Chhattisgarh Anandiben Patel Bhupesh Baghel T. B Radhakrishnan
Goa Mridula Sinha Manohar Parrikar Manjula Chellur
Gujarat Om Prakash Kohli Vijay Rupani R. Subhash Reddy
Haryana Kaptan Singh Solanki Manohar Lal Khattar Shiavax Jal Vazifdar
Himachal Pradesh Acharya Dev Vrat Jai Ram Thakur Sanjay Karol (Acting)
Jammu and Kashmir Satyapal Malik president's rule Badar Durrez Ahmed
Jharkhand Draupadi Murmu Raghubar Das Dhirubhai N. Patel (Acting)
Karnataka Vajubhai Vala H.D.Kumaraswamy H. G. Ramesh (Acting)
Kerala P. Sathasivam Pinarayi Vijayan Antony Dominic (Acting)
Madhya Pradesh Om Prakash Kohli (Additional charge) Kamal Nath Hemant Gupta
Maharashtra Bhagat Singh Devendra Fadnavis Manjula Chellur
Manipur Najma Heptulla N. Biren Singh N. Kotiswar Singh (Acting)
Meghalaya Ganga Prasad Mukul Sangma Dinesh Maheshwari
Mizoram Nirbhay Sharma Zoramthanga Ajit Singh
Nagaland Padmanabha Acharya Neiphiu Rio Ajit Singh
Odisha Ganeshi Lal Naveen Patnaik Vineet Saran
Punjab V. P. Singh Badnore Amarinder Singh Shiavax Jal Vazifdar
Rajasthan Kalyan Singh Vasundhara Raje Pradeep Nandrajog
Sikkim Shriniwas Patil Pawan Kumar Chamling Satish K. Agnihotri
Tamil Nadu Banwarilal Purohit Edappadi K. Palaniswami Indira Banerjee
Telangana E. S. L. Narasimhan (Additional charge) K. Chandrashekar Rao Ramesh Ranganathan (Acting)
Tripura Tathagata Roy Biplab Kumar Deb Tinlianthang Vaiphei
Uttar Pradesh Ram Naik Yogi Adityanath Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale
Uttarakhand Krishan Kant Paul Trivendra Singh Rawat K. M. Joseph
West Bengal Keshari Nath Tripathi Mamata Banerjee Jyotirmay Bhattacharya (Acting)

Elections

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Following elections were scheduled to take place in various states of the country

Events

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  • National income - 188,869,569 million

January - March

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April - June

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July - September

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October - December

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Sports

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January

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February

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March

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May

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June

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July

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November

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December

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India vs Australia test series 2018

In Men's Hockey World Cup 2018 Belgium won the tournament for the first time after defeating the Netherlands 3–2 in the final on a penalty shoot-out after a 0–0 draw. Defending champions Australia won the third place match by defeating England 8–1.[4]

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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April

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May

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June

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July

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August

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September

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  • September 17 – Captain Raju, 68, military officer and actor

October

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November

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December

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