- Brahma Chellaney won the Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award for his book Water: Asia's New Battleground
- Sharmila Tagore Awarded with an Honorary Doctorate of Arts by the Edinburgh Napier University.
- The Union Government constituted a National Committee on Direct Cash Transfers.The PM , Manmohan Singh would be the Chairperson of the committee
- India has been ranked 105 in World Economic Forum's global gender gap report 2012
- Delhi International Airport (P) Limited (DIAL) got an ISO 20000 international certification for eliminating and controlling information technology-related threats.
- Salman Khurshid --New External Affairs Minister
- Ashwani Kumar--- New Law Minister
- Rehman Khan ---- New Minority Affairs
- Ajay Maken-------New Housing and Urban Development
- Veerappa Moily --- NewPetroleum Ministry
- Manish Tiwari -----New Information amp; Broadcasting Ministry.
