# 2025 in India

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

## Incumbents
### National government

| Position | Name | Since |
| President of India | Droupadi Murmu (Age 66) | 25 July 2022 |
| Vice-President of India | Jagdeep Dhankhar (Age 73) | 11 August 2022 |
| Prime Minister of India | Narendra Modi (Age 74) | 26 May 2014 |
| Chief Justice of India | Sanjiv Khanna (Age 64) | 11 November 2024 |
| Speaker of the Lok Sabha | Om Birla (Age 62) | 19 June 2019 |
| Chief Election Commissioner of India | Gyanesh Kumar (Age 61) | 19 February 2025 |
| Chief of Defence Staff | Anil Chauhan (Age 63) | 30 September 2024 |
| Governor of Reserve Bank of India | Sanjay Malhotra (Age 57) | 11 December 2024 |
| Lok Sabha | 18th Lok Sabha | 4 June 2024 |

### 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 | N.D.A. | Vijay Bishnoi |
| Assam | Lakshman Prasad Acharya | Himanta Biswa Sarma | BJP | N.D.A. | Vijay Bishnoi |
| Bihar | Arif Mohammad Khan | Nitish Kumar | JD(U) | N.D.A. | K. Vinod Chandran |
| Chhattisgarh | Ramen Deka | Vishnu Deo Sai | BJP | N.D.A. | Ramesh Sinha |
| Goa | P. S. Sreedharan Pillai | Pramod Sawant | BJP | N.D.A. | Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya |
| Gujarat | Acharya Dev Vrat | Bhupendrabhai Patel | BJP | N.D.A. | Sunita Agarwal |
| Haryana | Bandaru Dattatreya | Nayab Singh Saini | BJP | N.D.A. | 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 | I.N.D.I.A | Shree Chandrashekhar (Acting) |
| Karnataka | Thawar Chand Gehlot | Siddaramaiah | INC | I.N.D.I.A | Nilay Vipinchandra Anjaria |
| Kerala | Rajendra Arlekar | Pinarayi Vijayan | CPI(M) | I.N.D.I.A | Ashish Jitendra Desai |
| Madhya Pradesh | Mangubhai Patel | Mohan Yadav | BJP | N.D.A. | Suresh Kumar Kait |
| Maharashtra | C.P. Radhakrishnan | Devendra Fadnavis | BJP | N.D.A. | Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya |
| Manipur | Ajay Kumar Bhalla | N. Biren Singh | BJP | N.D.A. | Siddharth Mridul |
| Meghalaya | C. H. Vijayashankar | Conrad Sangma | NPP | N.D.A. | 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 | N.D.A. | 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 | I.N.D.I.A | Alok Aradhe |
| Tripura | N. Indrasena Reddy | Manik Saha | BJP | N.D.A. | Aparesh Kumar Singh |
| Uttar Pradesh | Anandiben Patel | Yogi Adityanath | BJP | N.D.A. | Arun Bhansali |
| Uttarakhand | Gurmit Singh | Pushkar Singh Dhami | BJP | N.D.A. | Guhanathan Narendar |
| West Bengal | C. V. Ananda Bose | Mamata Banerjee | AITC | I.N.D.I.A | T. S. Sivagnanam |

### Union territory governments

| State | Lieutenant governor and Administrators | Chief Minister | Party | Political alliance | Chief Justice |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | Devendra Kumar Joshi (Lieutenant governor) | N | N | N | T. S. Sivagnanam (Calcutta High Court) |
| Chandigarh | Gulab Chand Kataria (Administrators) | N | N | N | Sheel Nagu (Punjab and Haryana High Court) |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu | Praful Khoda Patel (Administrators) | N | N | N | Alok Aradhe (Bombay High Court) |
| Delhi | Vinai Kumar Saxena (Lieutenant governor) | Rekha Gupta | BJP | N.D.A. | Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya (Delhi High Court) |
| Jammu and Kashmir | Manoj Sinha (Lieutenant governor) | Omar Abdullah | JKNC | I.N.D.I.A | Tashi Rabstan (High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh) |
| Ladakh | B. D. Mishra (Lieutenant governor) | N | N | N | Tashi Rabstan (High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh) |
| Lakshadweep | Praful Khoda Patel (Administrators) | N | N | N | Nitin Madhukar Jamdar (Kerala High Court) |
| Puducherry | Kuniyil Kailashnathan (Lieutenant governor) | N. Rangaswamy | AINRC | N.D.A. | Kalpathi Rajendran Shriram (Madras High Court) |

## Events
### January

* 3 January –
** Five female members of the same family are fatally stabbed in a suspected honour killing by a relative in Lucknow.
** 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.
* 5 January – An HAL Dhruv helicopter of the Indian Coast Guard crashes during a training flight in Porbandar, Gujarat, killing three crew members.
* 6 January –
** The first HMPV Virus case in India is detected in Bengaluru.
** Nine people, including eight police officers, are killed after their vehicle hits a landmine planted by Naxalites in Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh.
** Nine miners are killed in the flooding of a coal mine in Dima Hasao district, Assam.
* 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.
* 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.
* 13 January – The Z-Morh Tunnel in Jammu and Kashmir is inaugurated in a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
* 13 January–26 February : 2025 Prayag Maha Kumbh Mela.
* 16 January – Actor Saif Ali Khan is stabbed by an unknown man during an alleged robbery at his Mumbai residence.
* 18 January – Sanjay Roy is convicted by the Sealdah court in Kolkata for the 2024 Kolkata rape and murder.
* 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.
* 20 January – The Sealdah Court in Kolkata sentences Sanjay Roy to rigorous life imprisonment following his conviction in the 2024 Kolkata rape and murder.
* 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.
* 24 January – Eight people are killed in an explosion at an ordnance factory in Bhandara district, Maharashtra.
* 29 January – At least 30 people are killed in a crowd crush at the 2025 Prayag Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj.

### February

* 2 February – A bus carrying pilgrims falls into a gorge near Saputara, Gujarat, killing five people and injuring 35 others.
* 5 February – 2025 Delhi Legislative Assembly election: The Bharatiya Janata Party wins a two-thirds majority in the Delhi Legislative Assembly.
* 9 February –
** Thirty-one Naxalites and two military personnel are killed in the 2025 Bijapur clash.
** N. Biren Singh resigns as the Chief Minister Of Manipur amid ongoing ethnic violence in the state.
* 10 February – Ranveer Allahabadia's remarks on the show India's Got Latent sparks nation-wide outrage and debate on free speech and laws on obscene content on social media.
* 13 February – The Union Government imposes President's rule in Manipur amid ongoing ethnic violence in the state.
* 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.
* 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.
** At least 18 people are killed in a crowd crush at New Delhi railway station.
* 19 February – The BJP names Rekha Gupta as Chief Minister of Delhi.
* 21 February –
** The Invest Kerala Global Summit is held by the Kerala state government.
** 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.
* 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.
** The Srisaliam Left Bank Canal collapses in Nagarkurnool district, Telangana, leaving eight workers missing.
* 26 February – An army truck is attacked by militants in Rajouri district, Jammu and Kashmir.
* 28 February – An avalanche hits a Border Roads Organisation camp in Mana, Uttarakhand, killing eight people.

### 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.
* 7 March –
** A SEPECAT Jaguar of the Indian Air Force crashes during a training exercise in Panchkula district, Haryana. The pilot ejects safely.
** An Antonov An-32 of the Indian Air Force crashes on landing at Bagdogra Airport in West Bengal. No fatalities are reported.
* 9 March –
** India wins the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy for the third time in Dubai.
** The first body from the SLBC tunnel collapse is exhumed.
* 17 March – 2025 Nagpur violence: At least 30 people are injured in clashes demanding the removal of the tomb of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in Nagpur.

### Scheduled

* Exact dates unknown – 2025 Kabaddi World Cup (International Kabaddi Federation)
* 31 May – The Miss World 2025 pageant will be held in Hyderabad.
* 15 June–15 July – 2025 Rajya Sabha elections
* October – 2025 Asia Cup
* October/November – 2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election
* December – 2025 Men's FIH Hockey Junior World Cup

## Deaths
### January

* 1 January:
** K. S. Manilal, 86, botany scholar and taxonomist.
** Kaak, 84, cartoonist.
* 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
* 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

### March

* 3 March-
** Padmakar Shivalkar, 84, cricketer
** Sunil Satpal Sangwan, 77, politician
* 5 March- S.K. Bagga, 71, politician
* 8 March -
** V.Ramaswami, 96, judge
** Harbans Jandu, 71, lyricist
* 9 March - Garimella Balakrishna Prasad, 76, musican and singer.
* 10 March - B. Subbayya Shetty, 91, politician
* 12 March - Syed Abid Ali, 83, cricketer
* 13 March -
** K.K. Kochu, 76, writer, activist
** Lil Bahadur Chettri, 92, novelist
* 14 March -
** Deb Mukherjee, 83, actor
** Panchakshari Hiremath, 92, writer, critic and translator
* 16 March -
** Ramakanta Rath, 90, modernist poet
** Bindu Ghosh, 76, actress
** Arvind Singh Mewar, 80, socialite and. hotelier, chairman of HRH Group of Hotels
* 17 March-
** Debendra Pradhan, 83, politician
** Mankombu Gopalakrishnan, 77, lyricist
** Pemmaraju Sreenivasa Rao, 83, legal expert.