2 May - India on this day20 events
Police in Calcutta discover a cache of explosives for use in alleged anarchist plot.
C.V. Narasimhan became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 25/11/77).
President J.B.Patnaik, former Orissa CM and PCC (I), arrested on corruption charges.
40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers.
Riots break out in Rawalpindi and East Bengal, spreading to the Punjab.
Controversial godman Chandraswami arrested and sent to high security Tihar jail on a day's judicial custody by a Delhi court for allegedly cheating NRI businessman Lakhubhai Pathak of $1 lakh in 1983.
Ceylon Asian conference ends with plea for peace in Indo-China, end of atomic tests and condemnation of colonialism.
The Indian Army at Bandipura market captured 10.5 Kg Charas.
700 union leaders arrested in a move to avert a rail strike in New Delhi.
Satyajeet Ray, world famous film director and a very short story writer, was born in a family of artistS. In 1989, he was awarded highest honour of France ''Legion d Honeur''.
Mohun Bagan retains Federation Cup (football) beating Mafatlal at Calicut.
Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar, the architect of modern Himachal Pradesh and an energetic Chief Minister, passed away.
Declaration by the PM that India was opposed to joining any power-block in the event of another war.
Lok Sabha passed the Public Providend Fund Act.
General Election 2nd phase begins in 204 LS and 223 Assembly constituencies spread over 17 States & union territories.