The following is a list of events for the year 2024 in India.
Incumbents
National government
State governments
Events
January
- 1 January - ISRO successfully launches its first X-Ray polarimeter satellite XPoSat to study the polarization of intense X-Ray sources in space.
- 2 January - 2023âÂÂ2024 Indian truckers' protests: Protests are organized by Indian truckers against the severity of the newly proposed law in dealing with the hit-and-run cases.
- 3 January -
- A court in Jaunpur sentences two men to death over the 2005 Jaunpur train bombing which killed 14 people.
- A bus carrying 45 passengers collides with a truck in Golaghat district in Assam killing 12 and injuring 30 others.
- 5 January - 2024 Sandeshkhali violence: A team of ED officers are injured in clashes with local supporters of Shahjahan Sheikh in Sandeshkhali, West Bengal.
- 6 January -
- ISRO's Aditya-L1 spacecraft on India's first solar mission, successfully enters its final orbit around the first Sun-Earth Lagrangian point (L1), approximately 1.5 million kilometers from the earth.
- Three Maldives government ministers (Maryam Shiuna, Malsha Shareef and Mahzoom Majid) make derogatory remarks against the Indian Prime Minister on social media, causing massive backlash and tourism boycott in India, and triggering the 2024 India-Maldives diplomatic row, which forced the Maldivian government to suspend the ministers.
- 7 January - Tribal protests are held in Hasdeo Arand, Chhattisgarh against the felling of four lakh trees at the Parsa Coal Mines, operated by Adani Group and Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam.
- 12 January - Prime Minister Modi inaugurates Mumbai Trans Harbour Link, the longest bridge in India that connects Mumbai with Navi Mumbai.
- 14 January - Rahul Gandhi commences his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra from Imphal, Manipur.
- 22 January - Ram Mandir Prana Pratishtha: The Ram Mandir at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh is inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
- 25 January - French President Emmanuel Macron arrives in Jaipur as part of his two-day state visit to India and holds a joint roadshow with Indian Prime Minister Modi from Jantar Mantar to Sanganeri gate.
- 26 January - India's 75th Republic Day is celebrated with French President Macron participating as the Chief Guest.
- 28 January - 2024 Bihar political crisis: Chief Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar resigns, ending the coalition with the INDIA bloc and takes oath as the Chief Minister for the ninth time by joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led NDA.
- 29 January - An 18 year old JEE aspirant dies by suicide in Kota, Rajasthan leaving behind a suicide note.
- 30 January -
- Three Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel are killed and 14 others injured in a Naxal attack near Tekalgudem village in Chhattisgarh.
- The historic Masjid Akhonji in Mehrauli, Delhi, is demolished by the Delhi Development Authority.
- 31 January - Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren is arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with a money laundering case linked to a land scam.
February
- 2 February - Champai Soren takes oath as the new Chief Minister of Jharkhand following the arrest of Hemant Soren.
- 6 February -
- An explosion at a firecracker factory in Harda, Madhya Pradesh, leaves 11 dead, over 100 injured and destroys 60 nearby houses, leading to the evacuation of over 100 houses.
- The Election Commission of India recognises Ajit Pawar's faction as the official Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and grants his faction the party's poll symbol and name, while directing Sharad Pawar's camp to take a new name.
- 7 February - The Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly passes the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) bill 2024, making Uttarakhand the first state in India to pass a law on the same.
- 8 February - 2024 Haldwani violence: Four people are killed and over 100 are injured after clashes break out between rioters and police in Haldwani, Uttarakhand after the demolition of an illegal madrasa following a court order, prompting the suspension of internet services, closure of schools, and issuance of shoot-at-sight orders against the rioters.
- 12 February -
- Seven of the eight Indian Navy veterans who were released after being initially sentenced to death on espionage charges in Qatar, reach India.
- 2024 Indian farmers' protest: Second round of protests and road blockades by farmers begin in the northern states of Punjab and Haryana, demanding Minimum Support Price and waiver of agricultural loans.
- 15 February -
- A unanimous judgement by the constitutional bench of the Supreme Court of India strikes down the Electoral bond scheme, stating it to be unconstitutional, arbitrary and violation of right to information under article 19 of the Constitution.
- A fire breaks out at a paint factory in Alipur, Delhi, resulting in 11 deaths and 4 injuries.
- 17 February -
- ISRO launches the INSAT-3DS meteorological satellite.
- 2024 Virudhunagar explosions: A firecracker factory explosion in Virudhunagar district, Tamil Nadu, leaves 10 dead and seven injured.
- 23 February â 2024 Indian farmers' protest: A farmer dies amidst the ongoing protests, raising the death toll to five.
- 24 February â A tractor carrying a wagon loaded with Hindu pilgrims overturns and falls into a pond in Kasganj District, Uttar Pradesh, killing 23 people and injuring nine.
- 25 February â Former MLA and then INLD state president Nafe Singh Rathee is shot and killed in Bahadurgarh, Jhajjar district, Haryana.
- 27 February - 2024 Rajya Sabha elections: Elections are held to elect 65 of the 245 members of Rajya Sabha with the BJP winning 32 seats, two more than what it held previously at the expense of Indian National Congress, whose candidates lost in Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh due to cross voting of legislators from the Congress and the Samajwadi Party.
March
April
May
- 1 May â 2024 Indian bomb hoaxes: About 150 schools in Delhi receive bomb threats, prompting evacuation and closure of schools in the region.
- 4 May â Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar rejects comments made by US President Joe Biden saying that India's economic growth was being held back by xenophobia.
- 9 May â Air India Express cancels more than 85 flights due to staff calling in sick, linked to a protest against working conditions imposed by the new owner Tata Group.
- 10 May âÂÂ
- The Supreme Court grants Arvind Kejriwal interim bail in connection with the Delhi liquor policy money laundering case thus permitting him to campaign in general elections.
- Security forces kill 12 Maoists in Chhattisgarh.
- 13 May - 1 June â 2024 Odisha Legislative Assembly election
- 13 May âÂÂ
- Mumbai hoarding collapse: 17 people are killed and 74 others are injured after an illegal hoarding collapses onto a gas station during a storm in the Ghatkopar suburb of Mumbai.
- 2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election.
- 19 May â 2024 Pune Porsche car crash: A high speeding Porsche Taycan car driven by a 17-year-old boy named Vedant Agarwal under the influence of alcohol kills two software engineers in Kalyani Nagar, Pune.
- 21 May âÂÂ
- The government declares a one-day state mourning in India for Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi following his death in a helicopter crash.
- Charges of sexual harassment are filed against former Wrestling Federation of India president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh in a Delhi court.
- 22 May âÂÂ
- 2024 Indian bomb hoaxes: The North Block building of the Central Secretariat which houses the Home Ministry receives a bomb threat email that is subsequently dismissed as a hoax.
- The Calcutta High Court issues an order invalidating all Other Backward Classes (OBC) certificates issued by the Government of West Bengal since 2010.
- 23 May â 2024 Thane explosion: At least nine people are killed and 64 others injured after a fire caused by an exploding boiler breaks out at a chemical factory in Dombivli, outside Thane.
- 25 May -
- 2024 Rajkot gaming zone fire: At least 33 people are killed including nine children in a fire at a gaming arcade in Rajkot, Gujarat.
- At least seven infants are killed in a fire in a baby care facility at a hospital in Shahdara, East Delhi.
- 26 May â Twelve people are killed during heavy rains as Cyclone Remal makes landfall at West Bengal.
- 28 May â Seventeen people are killed and 12 others are reported missing after a stone quarry collapses due to heavy rains caused by cyclone Remal in Melthum, Mizoram.
- 29 May â 2024 Indian heat wave: The India Meteorological Department records a maximum temperature of at its station in the Mungeshpur area of Delhi, the highest ever temperature recorded in the city.
- 30 May -
- A bus carrying Hindu pilgrims falls into a gorge in Jammu and Kashmir, killing 21 people and injuring 35 others.
- 2024 Indian heat wave: At least 15 people die in a heatwave that affects northern and central India.
- 31 May â Prajwal Revanna, Member of Parliament from Karnataka representing the Janata Dal (Secular), is arrested in Bengaluru over sexual assault charges.
June
July
â¢14 July - ISRO successfully launched chandrayan III dated on 14 July 2024* 15 July â Four soldiers including an officer are killed in an ambush by militants in Doda district, Jammu and Kashmir.
- 18 July âÂÂ
- Twelve coaches of the DibrugarhâÂÂChandigarh Express train derail in Gonda, Uttar Pradesh, resulting in at least four dead and 25 injured.
- NaxaliteâÂÂMaoist insurgency: Two soldiers are killed and four others injured in an attack by Maoists in Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh.
- 19 July â WazirX, an Indian cryptocurrency exchange owned by Binance, announces a security breach in which US$234 million in cryptocurrency was stolen, amounting to half of the platform's total assets.
- 26 July âÂÂ
- The Charaideo maidam tomb complex in Assam is designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
- China and India agree to cooperate in withdrawing all their troops from their disputed border, with aims of peacefully achieving "complete disengagement" from the border conflict as quickly as possible.
- 27 July â 3 UPSC aspirants die due to excessive flooding of the basement of the Rau IAS coaching centre in Rajendra Nagar, Delhi.
- 28 July â Manu Bhaker wins a bronze medal in the 10 meter air pistol the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
- 30 July âÂÂ
- 2024 Wayanad landslides â At least 231 people are killed, 397 injured and 118 missing following landslides in Wayanad district, Kerala.
- A train derails near Barabamboo, Jharkhand, killing two people and injuring 20 others.
- Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh win bronze medals in Mixed 10 metre air pistol team at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
August
September
October
- 4 October â A truck collides with a tractor trolley in Bhadohi district, Uttar Pradesh, killing 10 and injuring three.
- 5 October âÂÂ
- 2024 Abujhmarh clash: More than 36 Maoists are killed in an operation carried out by District Reserve Guards and Special Task Force in the Abujhmarh forest area in Chhattisgarh.
- 2024 Haryana Legislative Assembly election: The BJP retains control of the state Legislative Assembly for a record third term, winning 48 of 90 seats.
- 6 October - At least 5 people are killed and many others are hospitalized due to dehydration caused in a crowd crush in the celebration of the 92nd anniversary of the Indian Air Force in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
- 11 October- 2024 Tamil Nadu train collision: : A Mysuru Dharbhanga train collides with a freight train on a loop line in Chennai, injuring 19 people.
- 12 October â Former Maharashtra state minister Baba Siddique is shot dead in Mumbai.
- 14 October â India recalls its high commissioner to Canada Sanjay Kumar Verma in retaliation to Ottawa placing him and other Indian diplomats under investigation over the murder of Canadian national and Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in 2023. It also orders the expulsion of Canada's acting high commissioner Stewart Ross Wheeler and five other diplomats.
- 18 October â A migrant worker from Bihar is found shot dead by suspected militants in Shopian District, Jammu and Kashmir.
- 20 October â Seven workers on a tunnel project are killed in an attack by militants on their camp in Gagangir, Jammu and Kashmir.
- 21 October â India announces an agreement with China regarding military patrols along the Line of Actual Control between their countries.
- 25 October â At least two people are killed after Cyclone Dana makes landfall in Odisha.
- 27 October - 2024 Mumbai stampede :A stampede occurs at the Bandra Terminus railway station in Mumbai, injuring nine people, two of them critically.
- 28 October âÂÂ
- The first private military aircraft manufacturing facility in India is inaugurated in Vadodara as part of a joint venture between Airbus and Tata Advanced Systems.
- At least 150 people are injured after an explosion caused by a fire at a fireworks storage facility near the Veerarkavu temple in Kasargod, Kerala.
- 29âÂÂ31 October â At least ten elephants die from suspected fungus poisoning from consuming contaminated millet in Bandhavgarh National Park, Madhya Pradesh.
November
December
Deaths
January
- 1 January - Ved Prakash Nanda, 89, legal scholar.
- 3 January - J. P. S. Uberoi, 90, sociologist.
- 5 January - Balwant Singh Nandgarh, 80, Sikh leader, jathedar of Takht Sri Damdama Sahib (2003âÂÂ2015).
- 9 January - Rashid Khan, 55, Hindustani classical musician.
- 10 January -
- Sushree Devi, 73, politician, former Member of Parliament (2002âÂÂ2008) and MLA (1990âÂÂ1995).
- Shamim Jairajpuri, 81, zoologist.
- 13 January - Prabha Atre, 91, classical vocalist.
- 14 January - T. H. Musthafa, 82, politician, former MLA (1977âÂÂ1995, 2001âÂÂ2006).
- 15 January - K. J. Joy, 77, music composer.
- 16 January - K. B. Sreedevi, 83, writer.
- 17 January - Baldev Raj Chawla, 86, politician, former MLA.
- 20 January -
- Jayanarayan Mohanty, 72, politician.
- Anadi Charan Sahu, 83, politician, former MP (1977âÂÂ1980).
- 22 January - Jagdish Gandhi, 87, educationist and politician, former MLA (1969âÂÂ1974) and founder of City Montessori School.
- 25 January -
- Hari Shankar Bhabhra, 95, politician, former MP (1978âÂÂ1984), speaker of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly (1990âÂÂ1994) and deputy chief minister of Rajasthan (1994âÂÂ1998).
- Bhavatharini, 47, music composer and singer.
- 27 January - Sreela Majumdar, 65, actress.
- 29 January - P. Narsa Reddy, 92, independence activist and politician, former MP (1989âÂÂ1991) and MLA (1962âÂÂ1978).
- 31 January - Anil Babar, 74, Politician, MLA (2019âÂÂ2024).
February
- 4 February - N. K. Desam, 87, poet and literary critic.
- 6 February -
- Farooq Nazki, 83, poet, broadcaster, former director of Doordarshan (1986âÂÂ1997).
- K. Parasuraman, 63, former MP (2014âÂÂ2019).
- 11 February - Usha Kiran Khan, litterateur.
- 16 February - Imitiaz Qureshi, 93, chef.
- 17 February -
- Suhani Bhatnagar, 19, actress.
- Anjana Bhowmick, 79, actress
- 23 February - Manohar Joshi, 86, politician
- 24 February - Kumar Shahani, 83, film director and screenwriter.
- 26 February - Pankaj Udhas, classical singer.
- 27 February - Shafiqur Rahman Barq, former MLA and MP.
- 28 February - Avtar Saini, microprocessor designer and developer
March
- 1 March - Aziz Qureshi, 82, politician
- 7 March - Biraj Adhikari, 63, politician, founder of the Sikkim National People's Party.
- 11 March - Surya Kiran, 49, film actor and director
- 22 March - Partha Sarathi Deb, 68, Bengali actor.
- 29 March - Daniel Balaji, 48, actor
April
- 1 April -
- Paliath Ravi Achan, 96, cricketer.
- Shantilata Barik, 65, singer.
- 6 April -
- N. Pugazhenthi, 71, politician.
- Pranavjyoti Deka, 84, short story writer.
- 7 April - Antonette Mendes, 79, singer.
- 12 April - Ravela Joseph, 86, Sapphire jubilee-Priest.
- 14 April -
- Mohan R. Wani, 59, biologist.
- A. M. Krishnamurthy, 66, politician.
- 15 April -
- R. Indira Kumari, 73, politician.
- Dalip Singh Majithia, 103, Indian Air Force pilot.
- 16 April - K. G. Jayan, 89, Carnatic singer.
- 20 April -
- Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar Singh, 71, businessman.
- Sunetra, 53, actress
- 22 April -
- Durai, 84, director.
- Sudhir Kakar, 85, psychoanalyst.
- 24 April -
- Rajvir Singh Diler, 65, politician.
- Abdul Aleem Farooqui, 76, Islamic scholar.
- 29 April - Srinivasa Prasad, 76, politician.
May
- 1 May -
- Uma Ramanan, 69, playback singer.
- H. M. Raju, 92, politician.
- 3 May -
- Kailash Chandra Gahtori, 55, politician.
- Atul Kumar Anjan, 69, politician.
- Yashwant Trivedi, 89, poet.
- Sum Ronghang, 61, politician.
- 4 May - Gangadhar Gade, 85, politician.
- 5 May -
- Jose Kattukkaran, 92, politician.
- Kelath Aravindakshan Marar, 82, Chenda artist.
- 6 May -
- Harikumar, 68, screenwriter and film director.
- Kanakalatha, 63, actress.
- 8 May -
- Moosa Raza, 87, civil servant.
- Sangeeth Sivan, 65, director and screenwriter.
- K. P. Yohannan, 74, Pentecostal Christian prelate.
- C. Velayudham, 73, politician.
- K. Vasantha Bangera, 78, politician.
- 11 May - Surjit Patar, 79, writer and poet.
- 13 May -
- Sushil Kumar Modi, 72, politician.
- M. Selvarasu, 67, politician.
- Birubala Rabha, 70, activist.
- Iswar Prasanna Hazarika, 87, politician.
- 15 May -
- Kamla Beniwal, 97, activist and politician.
- Malti Joshi, 89, novelist.
- 16 May - Vineet Nayyar, 85, businessman.
- 18 May -
- Narayanan Vaghul, 88, banker and philanthropist.
- Joseph Suren Gomes, 80, Roman Catholic prelate.
- 19 May - Prataprao Baburao Bhosale, 89, politician.
- 21 May - Pendyala Venkata Krishna Rao, 70, politician.
- 22 May - Iqbal Ahmed Saradgi, 79, politician.
- 23 May -
- Nabam Atum, 76, social activist.
- P. N. Patil, 71, politician.
- 25 May - Rakesh Daultabad, 45, politician.
- 26 May -
- Devadass Ambrose Mariadoss, 76, Catholic bishop.
- Anant Solkar, 72, cricketer.
- 27 May - Surya Prakash, 56, film director.
- 30 May - Thumma Bala, 80, Roman Catholic prelate.
June
- 1 June - Maguni Charan Kuanr, 87, puppeteer.
- 4 June - B. R. P. Bhaskar, 92, journalist
- 7 June - A. J. T. Johnsingh, 78, vertebrate ecologist.
- 8 June - Ramoji Rao, 87, businessman, film producer, founder of Ramoji Film City.
- 10 June - Amol Kale, 47, cricket administrator.
- 11 June - Rajeev Taranath, 91, classical musician.
- 12 June - T. K. Chathunni, 80, football coach.
- 14 June - Sreedharan Champad, 86, circus artist.
- 15 June - Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare, 95, politician.
- 17 June -
- Devinder Gupta, 81, judge
- Hosenara Islam, politician
- 18 June - P. Thankappan Nair, 91, historian
- 20 June - David Johnson, 52, cricketer
- 22 June - Kamala Hampana, 88, Kannada writer
- 23 June - Sakini Ramachandraih, 61, folk singer
- 25 June - Kamal Chaudhry, 76, politician
- 29 June -
- Dharmapuri Srinivas, 75, politician
- Ramesh Rathod, 57, politician
July
- 3 July - Smriti Biswas, 100, actress
- 8 July - Ram Buxani, 83, businessman and philanthropist
- 9 July - Shaila Rani Rawat, 68, politician
- 11 July - Aparna, 57, television presenter, actress, radio jockey.
- 12 July - Rafat Saeed Qureshi, 77, historian and writer
- 20 July - Kamala Pujari, 74, organic farming advocate
- 21 July -
- Ambalapuzha Gopakumar, 80, poet and historian
- Brendan Pereira, 95, advertising executive
- 23 July - C. T. Kurien, 93, economist
- 26 July - Prabhat Jha, 67, politician
- 27 July - Biswanath Chowdhury, 81, politician
- 29 July -
- Snehlata Deshmukh, 85, academic administrator
- Arif Aqueel, 72, politician
- 31 July - Anshuman Gaekwad, 71, Cricketer
August
- 2 August -
- Ajay Sastry, 50, film director
- Chandrakant Sheth, 86, poet and literary critic
- 3 August - Yamini Krishnamurthy, 83, classical dancer
- 4 August - Shobhana Ranade, 99, Gandhian social worker
- 8 August - Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, 80, Former West Bengal Chief Minister.
- 10 August - Natwar Singh, 95, diplomat and politician
- 14 August - Godawari Dutta, 93, painter
- 15 August - Ram Narain Agarwal, 84 Aerospace Engineer
- 16 August - S. C. Marak, 83, politician
- 17 August - Mahesh Chandra Guru, 67, mass communication scholar
- 18 August -
- Rakesh Pal, 58, flag officer
- John Claro, 93, writer
- 19 August - Sundararajan Padmanabhan, 83, general officer
- 20 August-
- Manju Mehta, 79, Sitar Player .
- Utpalendu Chakrabarty, 76, filmmaker
- 23 August- Nari Hira, publisher
- 25 August - David Raju Palaparthi, 66, politician
- 26 August- Vasantro Chavan, 70, Politician
- 28 August - Denzil Keelor, 90, air force officer
- 29 August- A.G Noorani, Historian, Politician and Lawyer
September
- 1 September-
- Umesh Upadhyay, 66, television journalist.
- Makrand Mehta, 93, historian
- 5 September-
- Aruna Vasudev, 87, film scholar and critic
- Radha Charan Gupta, 89, mathematics historian
- 8 September- Vikas Sethi, 48, actor
- 9 September- Shomie Das, 89, educationist
- 12 September- Sitaram Yechury, 72, Politician.
- 14 September-
- Toshen Bora, 74, footballer
- Zubair Khan, 61, politician
- 17 September-
- Venkatreddy Mudnal, 71, politician
- C. I. D. Sakunthala, 84, actress
- 20 September-
- Srirangam Kannan, 72, musician
- Kaviyoor Ponnamma, 79, actress
- 21 September- M. M. Lawrence, 95, politician
- 25 September-
- Suryakanta Vyas, 86, politician
- Magunta Parvathamma, 77, politician
- Haji Nurul Islam, 60, politician
- 26 September-
- Neelam Karwariya, 55, politician
- Keki N . Daruwalla, 87, poet
- 27 September- Pappammal, 109, organic farmer
- 29 September- Vimla Patil, author
- 30 September-
- Naresh Churi, 60, cricket player and coach (Railways)
- Keki Hormusji Gharda, 95, chemical engineer, chemist and entrepreneur.
October
- 2 October-
- Christopher Charles Benninger, 81, American-born Indian architect
- Dnyaneshwar Patil, politician
- 3 October- Keerikkadan Jose, 69, actor
- 4 October- O. R. Ramachandran, 77, politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu.
- 5 October-
- Shambhuji Thakor, 74, politician
- Sunaina Kejriwal, 53, art curator and daughter of Rahul Bajaj.
- 8 October- Panangipalli Venugopal, 82, cardiac surgeon and former director of AIIMS Delhi
- 9 October-
- Ratan Tata, 86, conglomerate industry executive, chairman of Tata Sons and Tata Group (1990âÂÂ2012, 2016âÂÂ2017)
- T. P. Madhavan, 88, actor
- Dhaneswar Majhi, 83, politician
- 10 October-
- Koushal Kishor Mishra, 67, political scientist
- Murasoli Selvam, 84, newspaper editor
- 12 October-
- Baba Siddique, 66, politician
- G. N. Saibaba, 57, academic and human rights activist
- Mahendra Singh Sodha, 92, physicist
- 13 October- Gyan Prakash Pilania, 92, politician
- 14 October-
- Atul Parchure, 57, actor
- Nadeem al-Wajidi, 70, Islamic scholar
- 16 October- Sukh Dev, 101, organic chemist, academic and researcher
- 17 October-
- Debraj Roy, 69, Bengali actor
- Kamlesh Patel, politician
- Prabhat Kumar Samantaray, politician
- 23 October- Banwari Lal Sharma, 84, politician, five-time Rajasthan MLA.
- 25 October-
- Rohini Godbole, 71, physicist and academic
- Kanaka Raju, 83, dancer
- 28 October-
- K. S. Puttaswamy, 98, jurist and petitioner, judge of the High Court of Karnataka (1977âÂÂ1986)
- Hafiz Alam Sairani, 64, politician
- 30 October- Nishadh Yusuf, 43, film editor
- 31 October-
- Devender Singh Rana, 58âÂÂ59, politician
- Manju Sharma, 83, biotechnologist
- Baselios Thomas I, 95, Syriac Orthodox prelate, head of the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church (since 2002)
November
- 1 November-
- Bibek Debroy, 69, economist
- Rohit Bal, 63, fashion designer
- Kulada Kumar Bhattacharya, 91, radio artist, actor and director
- 3 November-Guruprasad, 52, film director
- 5 November-
- Sharda Sinha, 72, folk and classical singer
- Naresh Yadav Ateli, 61, politician
- Reddi Satyanarayana, 99, politician
- Manjari Bhargava, 68, diver
- 6 November- K. Malaisamy, 87, politician
- 7 November-
- Dinanath Batra, 94, educationist
- Nitin Chauhaan, 35, actor
- Shreegopal Vyas, 92, politician
- 8 November- Musafir Ram Bhardwaj, 94, musician
- 9 November-
- Delhi Ganesh, 80, actor
- Anil Kumar (physicist), 83, physicist
- Ram Narayan, 96, musician
- 10 November-
- Mahendra Singh Mewar, 83, politician
- Indra Soundar Rajan, 65, author
- 11 November- R. Sharath Jois, 53, Yoga teacher
- 12 November-
- Manoj Mitra, 85, theatre, film and television actor, director and playwright
- M. T. Padma, 81, politician
- Shreenarayan Yadav, 89, politician
- 13 November- Raj Gauthaman, 74, literary scholar
- 14 November-
- Aashish Khan, 84, classical musician.
- Harischandra Chavan, 72, politician
- 15 November- Suresh Sangaiah, filmmaker
- 16 November- Nara Ramamurthy Naidu, 72, politician
- 17 November- S. M. Khan, 67, IIS officer
- 18 November-
- Giridhar Malaviya, 88, jurist and academic administrator
- Samir Dey, 67, politician
- Uma Dasgupta, 84, actress
- Manohar Tahasildar, 78, politician
- 20 November- V. T. Rajshekar, 92, journalist
- 21 November-
- Meghanathan, 60, actor
- H. S. Bedi, 78, jurist
- Chandra Shekhar, 83, politician
- 22 November- Omchery N. N. Pillai, 100, playwright, novelist and poet
- 23 November- Rajkumar Singhajit Singh, 93, classical dancer
- 24 November- Vishakha Tripathi, 75, spiritual leader
- 25 November-
- Shashi Ruia, 81, conglomerate industry executive, co-founder of Essar Group
- M. Jagannadha Rao, 88, jurist
- Kuldip Singh, 92, jurist
- 26 November-
- Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari, 85, politician
- Sivapatham Vittal, 83, endrocrinologist
- 28 November- Amiya Kumar Bagchi, 88, economist
- 30 November-
- Prithwindra Mukherjee, 88, author and researcher.
- Kanta Saroop Krishen, 95, social worker
December
- 1 December- Raj Manchanda, 79, squash player
- 2 December-
- Swadesh Chakraborty, 80, politician
- Choudhary Piara Singh, politician
- 4 December- M. R. Chandrasekharan, 95, literary critic and author
- 6 December-
- Jayabharathi, 77, film director
- Madhukar Pichad, 83, politician
- 7 December-
- Kushang Sherpa, 59, Sherpa mountaineer
- Hamida Banu, 64, sprinter
- 8 December-
- M. D. R. Ramachandran, 93, politician
- Manorama Singh, 86, politician
- 9 December- Santosh Deshmukh, 44, sarpanch
- 10 December- S. M. Krishna, 92, politician, minister of external affairs (2009âÂÂ2012), governor of Maharashtra (2004âÂÂ2008).
- 11 December- Ranmal Singh Dorwal, 101, politician
- 13 December- Mihir Kanti Chaudhuri, 77, inorganic chemist
- 14 December- E. V. K. S. Elangovan, 75, politician
- 15 December-
- Zakir Hussain, 73, tabla player
- Jodhaiya Bai Baiga, 86, visual artist
- 16 December-
- Tulsi Gowda, 86, environmentalist
- Thomas Berly, 92, film director
- 17 December- Hassan Khan, 88, politician
- 19 December-
- Meena Ganesh, 81, actress
- Darshanam Mogilaiah, 73, tribal musician
- 20 December-
- Om Prakash Chautala, 89, politician
- Shirish B Patel, 92, civil engineer
- Raja Mitra, 79, film director
- 21 December- Harvendra Singh Hanspal, 86, politician
- 22 December- Qamruddin Ahmad Gorakhpuri, 86, Islamic scholar
- 23 December- Shyam Benegal, 90, film director
- 25 December- M. T. Vasudevan Nair, 91, novelist and screenwriter
- 26 December- Manmohan Singh, 92, politician and former Prime Minister Of India.
- 29 December-
- Kishore Kunal, 74, police officer
- Satish Pradhan, 84, politician
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