And they also made news

The BJP retained power in Gujarat for sixth consecutive term, with trends from 182 seats giving it a win in 99 while the Congress followed with 79. The Congress sought revival of party through an improved electoral performance in Gujarat and commended the effective leadership of new chief Rahul Gandhi. The results set off a fierce back-and-forth on credibility factor and people’s choice between the Congress and the BJP.

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) defended the net neutrality and ordered the regulators not to block, degrade, slow down or grant preferential speed on basis of content consumed by the user. The debate of net neutrality had sparked off about a couple of years back when Facebook launched Free basics in December 2015. The term effectively means the internet service provider enables users to access online content of their choice without any differential speed.

India successfully test-fired the Agni IV intercontinental ballistic missile on January 2. The Agni IV is an intercontinental ballistic missile with a strike range of 4,000 km. The road-mobile Agni-IV is meant for deterrence against China, which can target any Indian city with its formidable inventory of long-range missiles.

The entire country was in shock when the news of the murder of a seven-year-old boy – Pradhyumn Thakur -- broke in September this year. The boy was found dead in the washroom of the upscale Ryan International School in Gurugram. While initial investigation by the local police held a bus conductor of the school guilty, CBI intervention revealed that a student of class 11^th of the same school had murdered the boy.

The phone's glass front and back makes it appear like as many say 'a showstopper'. Another new feature that Apple's top-of-the line iPhone brings to its smartphone line-up is OLED screen. iPhone X's 5.8-inch screen is the company's highest-resolution display with 2436 x 1125 pixels at 458 pixels per inch density (ppi). The company has termed its sharpest display ever (or so far) on iPhone as SuperRetina.

The judgment in the decade-old 2G spectrum allocation scam case, which arguably brought about the downfall of the UPA government, was delivered in December 2017. All accused, including DMK’s Kanimozhi, and former telecom minister A Raja, were acquitted of all charges. A special CBI court delivered the judgment, stating ‘lack of evidence’ as the reason.

Team India, led by Virat Kohli, had the most successful year for any Indian men's team ever, with 37 wins, surpassing the record of 31 set in 2016. It maintained the No 1 spot in the ICC Test Championship with series wins over Bangladesh, Australia and Sri Lanka (twice), reached the final of the Champions Trophy, won ODI series over England, West Indies, Sri Lanka (twice), Australia and New Zealand and T20I series against England, New Zealand and Sri Lanka (twice).

More than 3,600 scientists from 953 institutions collaborated to record both gravitational waves and light coming from the same cosmic event. The advanced LIGO and Virgo observations on earth detected gravitational ripples on August 17. The event has been heralded as what scientists are calling the age of multimessenger astronomy, because now scientists can learn of distant events via two messengers: light, and gravitational waves.

In May this year, a 19-year-old woman was gang raped in Haryana’s Gurugram by three men, and her eight-month-old baby killed. The woman had taken a shared auto in the area and was raped by the driver and the ‘co-passengers’, and the baby thrown at the concrete median verge of the road. The incident provoked widespread shock, horror and outrage for its sheer savagery.