2017  

IPS officer Jacob Thomas who was suspended by the Kerala government has been reinstated by the Central Administrative Tribunal. Thomas was first suspended in December (2017) for making a speech against corruption on International Anti-Corruption Day.

 

Wesley Mathews, adoptive father of 3-year-old Sherin Mathews has begun his term serving in prison for life in the case pertaining to the death of the toddler in 2017. Mathews had pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in Sherin’s death

Moving the bill for consideration, Union Minister for law and justice Ravi Shankar Prasad said that since January 2017, 574 such cases have been reported by the media, reading out from newspaper
 

Kollam additional sessions court awarded a 25-year-old man three life imprisonment terms for raping and murdering a minor in 2017
 

The Centre has filed a counter affidavit in the Madras high court saying that two bills that were sent to the President’s office seeking exemption from NEET, were sent back to the state of Tamil Nadu in 2017

Mishra, 78, had resigned from the Narendra Modi-led government as minister for micro, small and medium enterprises in 2017. The Uttar Pradesh leader did not contest the last Lok Sabha election

The NIA was set up in 2009 in the wake of the Mumbai terror attack that had claimed 166 lives. Since 2017, the Union home ministry has been pushing for more power to the NIA to meet fresh challenges.
 

England are trying to emulate the England women’s ODI side who lifted the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup in 2017 with a dramatic nine-run victory over India at the same venue (Lord’s)

The tourist flow from India by air mounted to 2,00,438 in 2018, registering a 25% growth over the number of visitors recorded in 2017

The Supreme Court has deferred the plea of the DMK and the TTV Dhinakaran factions to disqualify 11 MLAs for voting against the confidence motion moved by Tamil Nadu chief minister in Feb 2017.
 

The study involved 2,683 women, who were part of the Women's Health Initiative in the US, which recruited nearly 1,62,000 postmenopausal women between 1993 and 1998 and followed them until February 2017.
 

A Hyderabad court on Thursday awarded life imprisonment to a 17-year-old for kidnapping, raping and murdering a 10-year-old. The boy was murdered on June 28, 2017. 

The work on demolition of Praja Vedika, built by Chandrababu Naidu for administration work, began on Monday (June 26).

'The mistakes committed by the Indian team during the Champions Trophy 2017 final were repeated by Pakistan yesterday (at ICC World Cup 2019),' said Shoaib Akhtar

Bengaluru resident Afzal Pasha had invested Rs 8 lakh in IMA, the company that is under the scanner for fraud. Pasha had saved the money for the wedding of his daughters and the wedding of one of his daughters was set for August 4. Pasha passed away on June 13 due to a heart attack.