2003 in India
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See also: 2002 in India, other events of 2003, 2004 in India and the Timeline of Indian history.
Facts
- Parliament worked for 133 days in 2003.
Events
- February 5 - 9 - Aero-India show is held in Bangalore.
- August 25 - 52 killed in two bomb blasts in Mumbai, India.
- Mulayam Singh Yadav is elected chief minister of Uttar Pradesh after Mayawati resigns
Diplomacy
- January 26 - The president of Iran, Mohammad Khatami, is the guest at the Republic Day celebration.
- April 18 - Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, at his first rally in Srinagar, makes a historic announcement of a peace initiative with Pakistan.
- May 31 - Prime Minister Vajpayee has the rare honour of joining the head table at the 300th foundation day of St. Petersburg with Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush.
- June 22 - Vajpayee is in China. India concedes that Tibet is an integral part of China. China agrees to recognise Sikkim's accession to India.
- September 9 - Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon, makes the first ever visit by an Israeli PM to India even as neighbour Pakistan raises eyebrows and Islamic countries watch silently.
- September 24 - US President George W. Bush invites Vajpayee to lunch in New York during Vajpayee's US trip. It is considered an important meet for Indo-US relations. Several deals are struck on civilian nuclear technology, space, hi-tech trade and missile defence.
- October 22 - India announces confidence-building measures with respect to Indo-Pakistani relations: more buses, flights, higher mission strength, etc.
- November 15 - Vajpayee visits Syria.