There have been tremendous highs and heartbreaking lows for India in 2014. The year's biggest news was the new central government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose Bharatiya Janata Party won 282 of the 543 seats in the Indian Parliament, thus forming a legislative majority which hasn't happened since 1984.
India's Mars Mission, or Mangalyaan, made ripples internationally. Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade's arrest and strip search in New York under charges of visa fraud was also hotly debated. Natural disasters and a new Nobel Prize for India made sure that 2014 is a year to remember.
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Here are some of the news highlights of 2014.
Indian Diplomat's Visa Fraud
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Telangana Is Born
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Gulzar Wins Dadasaheb Phalke Award
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The Modi Wave
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The Third Gender
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Indian Nurses Return From Iraq
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India-Bangladesh Border Dispute
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India's Mars Mission
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Kashmir Floods
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Peshawar Killings
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Peace.
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Religious Conversions
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MSD Retires
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