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The following is a list of events for the year 2024 in India .
Position | Name | Image |
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President of India | Droupadi Murmu (Age 66) | ![]() |
Vice-President of India | Jagdeep Dhankhar (Age 73) | ![]() |
Prime Minister of India | Narendra Modi (Age 74) | ![]() |
Chief Justice of India | Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud (Age 64) | ![]() |
Sanjiv Khanna (Age 64) (from 11 November 2024) | ![]() | |
Speaker of the Lok Sabha | Om Birla (Age 61) | ![]() |
Chief Election Commissioner of India | Rajiv Kumar (Age 64) | ![]() |
Chief of Defence Staff | Anil Chauhan (Age 63) | ![]() |
Governor of Reserve Bank of India | Shaktikanta Das (Age 67) | ![]() |
Sanjay Malhotra (Age 56) (from 11 December 2024) | ![]() | |
Lok Sabha | 18th Lok Sabha (from 24 June 2024) | ![]() |
•14 July - ISRO successfully launched chandrayan III dated on 14 July 2024* 15 July – Four soldiers including an officer are killed in an ambush by militants in Doda district, Jammu and Kashmir. [113]
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Post-mortems have been conducted on 420 bodies, 178 bodies have been handed over to relatives, and 233 burials have taken place
231 dead and recovered 211 body parts
322 residents out of total 397 were discharged from hospitals till 12 August.
At the end of the week-long rescue operation, the search operations team recovered 231 bodies while 118 persons were declared missing. The unidentified bodies and body parts—including severed limbs and dismembered remains—were assigned specific numbers for future identification, and samples were taken for DNA testing. The 421 samples were then sent to the Regional Forensic Science Laboratory in Kannur, where forensic experts began the task of matching names to the body parts recovered from the tragedy.
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