2025 in India

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The following is a list of events for the year 2025 in India .

Incumbents

National government

Position	Name	Image
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	Sanjiv Khanna (Age 64)
Speaker of the Lok Sabha	Om Birla (Age 62)
Chief Election Commissioner of India	Gyanesh Kumar (Age 61)
Chief of Defence Staff	Anil Chauhan (Age 63)
Governor of Reserve Bank of India	Sanjay Malhotra (Age 57)
Lok Sabha	18th Lok Sabha

State governments

State	Governor	Chief Minister	Party	Political alliance	Chief Justice
Andhra Pradesh	S. Abdul Nazeer	N. Chandrababu Naidu	TDP	N.D.A.	Dhiraj Singh Thakur
Arunachal Pradesh	Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik	Pema Khandu	BJP		Vijay Bishnoi
Assam	Lakshman Prasad Acharya	Himanta Biswa Sarma			Vijay Bishnoi
Bihar	Arif Mohammad Khan	Nitish Kumar	JD(U)		K. Vinod Chandran
Chhattisgarh	Ramen Deka	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			Sheel Nagu
Himachal Pradesh	Shiv Pratap Shukla	Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu	INC	I.N.D.I.A	M. S. Ramachandra Rao
Jharkhand	Santosh Kumar Gangwar	Hemant Soren	JMM		Shree Chandrashekhar (Acting)
Karnataka	Thawar Chand Gehlot	Siddaramaiah	INC		Nilay Vipinchandra Anjaria
Kerala	Rajendra Arlekar	Pinarayi Vijayan	CPI(M)		Ashish Jitendra Desai
Madhya Pradesh	Mangubhai Patel	Mohan Yadav	BJP	N.D.A.	Suresh Kumar Kait
Maharashtra	C.P. Radhakrishnan	Devendra Fadnavis	BJP		Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya
Manipur	Ajay Kumar Bhalla	N. Biren Singh	BJP		Siddharth Mridul
Meghalaya	C. H. Vijayashankar	Conrad Sangma	NPP		S. Vaidyanathan
Mizoram	V. K. Singh	Lalduhoma	ZPM	Regional	Vijay Bishnoi
Nagaland	La. Ganesan	Neiphiu Rio	NDPP	N.D.A.	Vijay Bishnoi
Odisha	Kambhampati Hari Babu	Mohan Charan Majhi	BJP	N.D.A.	Chakradhari Sharan Singh
Punjab	Gulab Chand Kataria	Bhagwant Mann	AAP	I.N.D.I.A	Sheel Nagu
Rajasthan	Haribhau Kisanrau Bagde	Bhajan Lal Sharma	BJP	N.D.A.	Manindra Mohan Shrivastava
Sikkim	Om Prakash Mathur	Prem Singh Tamang	SKM		Biswanath Somadder
Tamil Nadu	R. N. Ravi	M. K. Stalin	DMK	I.N.D.I.A	Sanjay V. Gangapurwala
Telangana	Jishnu Dev Verma	Revanth Reddy	INC		Alok Aradhe
Tripura	N. 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			Guhanathan Narendar
West Bengal	C. V. Ananda Bose	Mamata Banerjee	AITC	I.N.D.I.A	T. S. Sivagnanam

Events

January

• 3 January –
  • Five female members of the same family are fatally stabbed in a suspected honour killing by a relative in Lucknow. ^[1]
  • The body of journalist Mukesh Chandrakar, who went missing on 1 January, is found inside a septic tank at a compound belonging to a road construction contractor in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh. ^[2]
• 5 January – An HAL Dhruv helicopter of the Indian Coast Guard crashes during a training flight in Porbandar, Gujarat, killing three crew members. ^[3]
• 6 January –
  • The first HMPV Virus case in India is detected in Bengaluru. ^[4]
  • Nine people, including eight police officers, are killed after their vehicle hits a landmine planted by Naxalites in Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh. ^[5]
  • Nine miners are killed in the flooding of a coal mine in Dima Hasao district, Assam. ^{[6] [7]}
• 9 January – At least six people are killed and many others are injured in a stampede at the Venkateswara Temple, Tirumala in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. ^{[8] [9]}
• 10 January – Larsen & Toubro chairman S. N. Subrahmanyan's statement on a 90-hour work week and working day on Sunday sparks outrage and debate on work–life balance. ^[10]
• 13 January – The Z-Morh Tunnel in Jammu and Kashmir is inaugurated in a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. ^[11]
• 13 January–26 February : 2025 Prayag Maha Kumbh Mela. ^{[12] [13]}
• 16 January – Actor Saif Ali Khan is stabbed by an unknown man during an alleged robbery at his Mumbai residence. ^{[14] [15]}
• 18 January – Sanjay Roy is convicted by the Sealdah court in Kolkata for the 2024 Kolkata rape and murder. ^[16]
• 19 January – A fire caused by an exploding gas cylinder destroys at least 18 temporary tents at the 2025 Prayag Kumbh Mela festival grounds. No injuries are reported. ^[17]
• 20 January – The Sealdah Court in Kolkata sentences Sanjay Roy to rigorous life imprisonment following his conviction in the 2024 Kolkata rape and murder. ^[18]
• 22 January – Thirteen people are killed and 15 others are injured after a passenger train collides with a group of people that disembarked from another train following a false fire alarm near Pachora, Maharashtra. ^[19]
• 24 January – Eight people are killed in an explosion at an ordnance factory in Bhandara district, Maharashtra. ^[20]
• 29 January – At least 30 people are killed in a crowd crush at the 2025 Prayag Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj. ^[21]

February

• 2 February – A bus carrying pilgrims falls into a gorge near Saputara, Gujarat, killing five people and injuring 35 others. ^[22]
• 5 February – 2025 Delhi Legislative Assembly election: The Bharatiya Janata Party wins a two-thirds majority in the Delhi Legislative Assembly. ^[23]
• 9 February –
  • Thirty-one Naxalites and two military personnel are killed in the 2025 Bijapur clash. ^[24]
  • N. Biren Singh resigns as Chief minister of Manipur amid ongoing ethnic violence in the state. ^[25]
• 13 February – The Union Government imposes President's rule in Manipur amid ongoing ethnic violence in the state. ^[26]
• 14 February – A series of police raids on bookstores are carried out in Jammu and Kashmir, resulting in the seizure of 668 books released by a publishing house associated with the outlawed Islamic organisation Jamaat-e-Islami. ^[27]
• 15 February –
  • An SUV carrying pilgrims to the 2025 Prayag Maha Kumbh Mela collides with a bus in Prayagraj, killing all ten people aboard the SUV. ^[28]
  • At least 18 people are killed in a crowd crush at New Delhi railway station. ^[29]
• 19 February – The BJP names Rekha Gupta as Chief Minister of Delhi. ^[30]
• 21 February –
  • The Invest Kerala Global Summit is held by the Kerala state government. ^[31]
  • The Drugs Controller General of India orders a ban on the manufacture and export of the opioids tapentadol and carisoprodol following reports of widespread addiction and deaths caused by the said drugs in West African countries. ^[32]
• 22 February –
  • An SUV crashes into a truck near Dhanbad while traveling to the 2025 Prayag Maha Kumbh Mela, killing six people and injuring two others. ^[33]
  • An under-construction irrigation tunnel collapses in Nagarkurnool district, Telangana, leaving eight workers missing. ^[34]
• 26 February – An army truck is attacked by militants in Rajouri district, Jammu and Kashmir. ^[35]
• 28 February – An avalanche hits a Border Roads Organisation camp in Mana, Uttarakhand, killing eight people. ^[36]

March

• 1 March – Delhi orders a ban on vehicles aged 10 years and above from refuelling inside city limits effective 31 March due to air pollution concerns. ^[37]

Scheduled

• Exact dates unknown – 2025 Kabaddi World Cup (International Kabaddi Federation) ^{[38] [39]}
• 31 May – The Miss World 2025 pageant will be held in Hyderabad. ^[40]
• 15 June–15 July – 2025 Rajya Sabha elections ^[41]
• October – 2025 Asia Cup ^[42]
• October/November – 2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election
• December – 2025 Men's FIH Hockey Junior World Cup ^{[43] [44]}

Deaths

January

• 1 January:
  • K. S. Manilal, 86, botany scholar and taxonomist.
  • Kaak, 84, cartoonist. ^[45]
• 2 January- S. Jayachandran Nair, 85, journalist
• 4 January- Rajagopala Chidambaram, 88, nuclear scientist
• 5 January- Na D'Souza, 87, novelist
• 6 January- Alok Chatterjee, 64, theatre actor and director
• 7 January-
  • Jiban Mukhopadhyay, 76, politician
  • Jagdish Mittal, 99, art collector
• 8 January-
  • Pritish Nandy, 73, filmmaker, poet, and politician
  • Gyanada Kakati, 92, actress
• 9 January- P. Jayachandran, 80, playback singer
• 11 January- Gurpreet Gogi, 57, politician
• 12 January- Manda Jagannath, 73, politician
• 13 January- Palavalasa Rajasekharam, 80, politician
• 14 January- Surat Singh Khalsa, 91, Indian-American political activist
• 15 January-
  • Manjul Sinha, television director
  • P. R. Sundaram, 73, politician
  • Sarigama Viji, 76, actor
• 17 January-
  • M. Srinivas, 82, politician
  • K. N. Chandrasekharan Pillai, 81, legal scholar
• 18 January-
  • N. Kayisii, 58, politician
  • K. R. Punia, 89, politician
  • T. M. Jayamurugan, film director
• 20 January- Shamsheer Singh Manhas, 64, politician
• 21 January- Kaajee Singh, 80, percussionist
• 22 January- Tabish Mehdi, 73, poet
• 25 January-
  • K. M. Cherian, 82, heart surgeon
  • Harpal Brar, 85, politician
  • Latika Katt, 76, sculptor
• 26 January-
  • Shafi, 56, film director
  • Samarendra Narayan Dev, 84, filmmaker

February

• 1 February-
  • Navin Chawla, 79, civil servant
  • Kishan Kapoor, 73, politician
  • Zakia Jafri, 87–88, human rights activist
• 3 February- Victor Menezes, 77, banker
• 4 February-
  • Karshan Solanki, 68, politician
  • Pushpalatha, 87, actress
• 7 February- Kameshwar Choupal, 68, politician
• 8 February - Gyalo Thondup, 97, Tibetan exile, brother of the 14th Dalai Lama ^[46]
• 11 February - Raosaheb Rangnath Borade, 84, novelist
• 12 February - Prabhakar Karekar, 80, Hindustani classical singer
• 13 February -
  • Sukri Bommagowda, 88, folk singer
  • Tukaram Bidkar, politician and actor
• 15 February -
  • Pratul Mukhopadhyay, 82, singer and songwriter
  • Lavoo Mamledar, 68, politician
  • R. M. Vasagam, 91, space scientist
  • Vinod Kumar Gupta, 77, jurist
• 16 February - Krishnaveni, 100, actress
• 19 February - Milind Rege, 76, cricketer
• 20 February - Kejong Chang, 90, politician
• 22 February - Mayadhar Raut, 91, dancer
• 23 February - Anant Bhave, 88 , marathi writer
• 25 February - Vimala Rangachar, 96, educationist
• 26 February - Anil R. Joshi, 84, poet and essayist
• 27 February -
  • Uttam Mohanty, 66, actor
  • P. Raju, 73, politician

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