2024 in India

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2024
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The following is a list of events for the year 2024 in India.

Incumbents[edit]

National government[edit]

Photo Post Name
President of India Droupadi Murmu
(Age 65)
Vice-President of India , Chairman of Rajya Sabha Jagdeep Dhankhar
(Age 72)
Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi
(Age 73)
Speaker of the Lok Sabha Om Birla
(Age 61)
Chief Justice of India D. Y. Chandrachud
(Age 64)
Governor of Reserve Bank of India Shaktikanta Das
(Age 67)
Chief Election Commissioner of India Rajiv Kumar
(Age 64)
Chief of Defence Staff Anil Chauhan
(Age 62)
Lok Sabha 17th Lok Sabha

State governments[edit]

State Governor Chief Minister Party Political alliance Chief Justice
Andhra Pradesh S. Abdul Nazeer Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy YSRCP Regional Dhiraj Singh Thakur
Arunachal Pradesh Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik Pema Khandu BJP N.D.A. Vijay Bishnoi
Assam Gulab Chand Kataria Himanta Biswa Sarma Vijay Bishnoi
Bihar Rajendra Arlekar Nitish Kumar JD(U) K. Vinod Chandran
Chhattisgarh Biswabhusan Harichandan Vishnu Deo Sai BJP Ramesh Sinha
Goa P. S. Sreedharan Pillai Pramod Sawant Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya
Gujarat Acharya Dev Vrat Bhupendrabhai Patel Sunita Agarwal
Haryana Bandaru Dattatreya Nayab Singh Saini Gurmeet Singh Sandhawalia (Acting)
Himachal Pradesh Shiv Pratap Shukla Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu INC U.P.A M. S. Ramachandra Rao
Jharkhand C. P. Radhakrishnan Champai Soren JMM Shree Chandrashekhar (Acting)
Karnataka Thawar Chand Gehlot Siddaramaiah INC Nilay Vipinchandra Anjaria
Kerala Arif Mohammad Khan Pinarayi Vijayan CPI(M) Ashish Jitendra Desai
Madhya Pradesh Mangubhai Patel Mohan Yadav BJP N.D.A. Ravi Malimath
Maharashtra Ramesh Bais Eknath Shinde Shiv Sena Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya
Manipur Anusuiya Uikey N. Biren Singh BJP Siddharth Mridul
Meghalaya Phagu Chauhan Conrad Sangma NPP S. Vaidyanathan
Mizoram Kambhampati Hari Babu Lalduhoma ZPM Regional Vijay Bishnoi
Nagaland La. Ganesan Neiphiu Rio NDPP N.D.A. Vijay Bishnoi
Odisha Raghubar Das Naveen Patnaik BJD Regional Chakradhari Sharan Singh
Punjab Banwarilal Purohit Bhagwant Mann AAP U.P.A Gurmeet Singh Sandhawalia (Acting)
Rajasthan Kalraj Mishra Bhajan Lal Sharma BJP N.D.A. Manindra Mohan Shrivastava
Sikkim Lakshaman Acharya Prem Singh Tamang SKM Biswanath Somadder
Tamil Nadu R. N. Ravi M. K. Stalin DMK U.P.A Sanjay V. Gangapurwala
Telangana C. P. Radhakrishnan Revanth Reddy INC Alok Aradhe
Tripura Indrasena Reddy Manik Saha BJP N.D.A. Aparesh Kumar Singh
Uttar Pradesh Anandiben Patel Yogi Adityanath Arun Bhansali
Uttarakhand Gurmit Singh Pushkar Singh Dhami Ritu Bahri
West Bengal C. V. Ananda Bose Mamata Banerjee AITC U.P.A T. S. Sivagnanam

Events[edit]

January[edit]

  • 30 January - Three CRPF personnel are killed and 14 others injured in a Naxal attack near Tekalgudem village in Chhattisgarh. The incident occurs during a search operation by a joint team of security personnel. The deceased include constables from the CoBRA and CRPF battalions.[15]

February[edit]

March[edit]

April[edit]

  • 3 April – Seven people, including two children are killed in a fire at a tailoring shop in Aurangabad.[47]
  • 12 April – Two chief suspects and conspirators in the March 2024 café bombing in Bengaluru are arrested in Kolkata.[48]
  • 14 April – The BJP launches its manifesto for the 2024 Lok Sabha election in the name of ‘Sankalp Patra’ (Resolution Letter).[49]
  • 16 April:
  • 19 April – 2024 Indian general election: Indians begin voting to elect members to the 18th Lok Sabha. With 968 million people eligible to vote, this election is expected to be the largest election in history. Voting will continue in a total of seven phases, lasting until June.[52]
  • 19 April – A restaurant fire that spreads to an adjacent hotel in Patna kills six people and injures 20.[53]
  • 29 April – Two people die in a heatwave in southern India.[54]

May[edit]

Predicted and scheduled events[edit]

Deaths[edit]

January[edit]

February[edit]

March[edit]

May[edit]

Sport[edit]

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