The following is a list of events for the year 2026 in India.
Incumbents
National office bearers Position Portrait NameSince President of India Droupadi Murmu(Age )25 July 2022 Vice President of India/ Chairman of the Rajya Sabha C. P. Radhakrishnan(Age )12 September 2025 Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi(Age )26 May 2014Chief Justice of India Surya Kant(Age )24 November 2025 Speaker of the Lok Sabha Om Birla(Age )19 June 2019 Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha Harivansh Narayan Singh (Age )9 August 2018 Chief Election Commissioner of India Gyanesh Kumar(Age )19 February 2025Chief of Defence StaffN. S. Raja Subramani(Age )31 May 2026Governor of Reserve Bank of India Sanjay Malhotra(Age )11 December 2024 Lok Sabha 18th Lok Sabha 24 June 2024
State governments StateGovernorChief MinisterPolitical Party Political allianceChief JusticeAndhra PradeshS. Abdul NazeerN. Chandrababu NaiduTDPN.D.A.Lisa GillArunachal PradeshKaiwalya Trivikram ParnaikPema KhanduBJPVijay BishnoiAssamLakshman Prasad AcharyaHimanta Biswa SarmaVijay BishnoiBiharSyed Ata HasnainSamrat ChoudharyK. Vinod ChandranChhattisgarhRamen DekaVishnu Deo SaiRamesh SinhaGoaAshok Gajapathi RajuPramod SawantDevendra Kumar UpadhyayaGujaratBhupendrabhai PatelSunita AgarwalHaryanaAshim Kumar GhoshNayab Singh SainiSheel NaguHimachal PradeshKavinder GuptaSukhvinder Singh SukhuINCI.N.D.I.AGurmeet Singh SandhawaliaJharkhandSantosh Kumar GangwarHemant SorenJMMM. S. SonakKarnatakaThawar Chand GehlotD. K. ShivakumarINCNilay Vipinchandra AnjariaKeralaRajendra ArlekarV. D. SatheesanINCNitin Madhukar JamdarMadhya PradeshMangubhai PatelMohan YadavBJPN.D.A.Suresh Kumar KaitMaharashtraJishnu Dev VarmaDevendra FadnavisBJPDevendra Kumar UpadhyayaManipurAjay Kumar BhallaYumnam Khemchand SinghBJPSiddharth MridulMeghalayaC. H. VijayashankarConrad SangmaNPPS. VaidyanathanMizoramV. K. SinghLalduhomaZPMRegional Vijay BishnoiNagalandNand Kishore YadavNeiphiu RioNPFN.D.A.Vijay BishnoiOdishaKambhampati Hari BabuMohan Charan Majhi BJPHarish TandonPunjabGulab Chand KatariaBhagwant MannAAPRegionalSheel NaguRajasthanHaribhau Kisanrau BagdeBhajan Lal SharmaBJPN.D.A.Manindra Mohan ShrivastavaSikkimOm Prakash MathurPrem Singh TamangSKMBiswanath SomadderTamil NaduRajendra Arlekar (additional charge)VijayTVKI.N.D.I.ASanjay V. GangapurwalaTelanganaShiv Pratap Shukla Revanth ReddyINCI.N.D.I.AAlok AradheTripuraN. Indrasena ReddyManik SahaBJPN.D.A.M. S. Ramachandra RaoUttar PradeshAnandiben PatelYogi AdityanathArun BhansaliUttarakhandGurmit SinghPushkar Singh DhamiManoj Kumar GuptaWest BengalR. N. RaviSuvendu AdhikariTapabrata Chakraborty
Union territory governments StateLieutenant governor and AdministratorsChief MinisterPartyPolitical allianceChief JusticeAndaman and Nicobar IslandsDevendra Kumar Joshi (Lieutenant governor)Tapabrata Chakraborty (Calcutta High Court)ChandigarhGulab Chand Kataria (Administrators)Sheel Nagu (Punjab and Haryana High Court)Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and DiuPraful Khoda Patel (Administrators)Alok Aradhe (Bombay High Court)DelhiTaranjit Singh Sandhu (Lieutenant governor)Rekha GuptaBJPN.D.A.Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya (Delhi High Court)Jammu and KashmirManoj Sinha (Lieutenant governor)Omar AbdullahJKNCI.N.D.I.AArun Palli (High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh)LadakhVinai Kumar Saxena (Lieutenant governor)Arun Palli (High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh)LakshadweepPraful Khoda Patel (Administrators) Nitin Madhukar Jamdar (Kerala High Court)PuducherryKuniyil Kailashnathan (Lieutenant governor)N. RangaswamyAINRCN.D.A.Kalpathi Rajendran Shriram (Madras High Court)
Events January
2 January – At least 14 people die and several people are hospitalised after drinking contaminated water in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. 5 January – A magnitude 5.1 earthquake hits Assam, injuring three people. 9 January – Fourteen people are killed and over 30 others are injured when a bus falls into a gorge near Nahan, Himachal Pradesh. At least 20 people are reported killed after being attacked by a single wild elephant roaming the forests of West Singhbhum district, Jharkhand since 1 January. 19 January – Nitin Nabin is elected as the National President of the Bharatiya Janata Party. At least nine people are killed and 80 others are injured when a bus overturns in Latehar, Jharkhand. 20 January – At least two people are killed in clashes after a youth's murder in Kokrajhar, Assam. 21 January – An outbreak of Nipah virus is reported in West Bengal, with at least two cases recorded in Barasat. A Pipistrel Virus of the Indian Air Force crashes into a pond after an engine failure in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. No injuries are reported. 22 January – A Casspir of the Indian Army falls into a gorge in Doda, Jammu and Kashmir, killing 10 soldiers and injuring 10 others. 24 January – A fire at a four-story building in Hyderabad, Telangana, kills six people. 26 January – Protests break out across the country over the UGC Bill 2026. 27 January – India and the European Union reach a free trade agreement. 28 January – 2026 Baramati Learjet 45 crash: Five people, including Maharashtra deputy chief minister, Ajit Pawar, are killed after a Learjet 45 crashes and explodes at Baramati Airport in Maharashtra. 29 January – The Supreme Court of India stays the implementation of the UGC Equity Regulations, 2026 citing misuse by specific groups. 30 January – At least 25 people are killed in a fire at a Wow! Momo restaurant in Kolkata.
February 2 February – US president Donald Trump announces a trade agreement with India that sees the reduction of US tariffs on Indian exports to 18% in exchange for India stopping purchases of Russian oil. 4 February – Yumnam Khemchand Singh takes oath as the Chief Minister of Manipur after President's rule ends in the state. 5 February – Eighteen people are killed in an explosion at an illegal coal mine in East Jaintia Hills district, Meghalaya. 7 February – 8 March – 2026 Men's T20 World Cup. 10 February – Six people are killed after a car collides with a truck in Dausa district, Rajasthan. 16–20 February – AI Impact Summit in New Delhi. 17 February – A woman and her infant child are burned to death by a mob after the former is accused of witchcraft in Kudsai, Jharkhand. 21 February – Brazil and India sign an agreement to strengthen cooperation on critical minerals and rare earth elements. 23 February – A Beechcraft C90 air ambulance operated by Redbird Airways crashes into a forest shortly after takeoff from Ranchi during a medical evacuation mission, killing all seven people on board. 27 February – A special court in Delhi discharges Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, K. Kavitha and 22 others in the Delhi liquor scam case. 28 February – Twenty-one people are killed in an fireworks explosion in Vetlapalem village, Kakinada district, Andhra Pradesh.
March
1 March – At least 15 people are killed and 18 others are critically injured in an explosion at an explosives factory in Nagpur district, Maharashtra. 2 March – Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announce that Canada and India have agreed to a deal that would strengthen their economic partnership, in a move aimed at boosting ties after two years of strained relationship between the two countries. 4 March – The United States allows India to buy Russian oil until 4 April. 5 March – Nitish Kumar announces his resignation as chief minister of Bihar to run in the 2026 Rajya Sabha elections. An Su-30MKI fighter jet of the Indian Air Force crashes shortly after takeoff for a training flight in Karbi Anglong district, Assam, killing its two pilots. 7 March – The government allows the Iranian Navy vessel IRIS Lavan to dock in Kochi on humanitarian grounds amid the 2026 Iran war. 8 March – India beat New Zealand in the final match and win the 2026 Men's T20 World Cup in cricket. 11 March – Farooq Abdullah, the former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, survives an assassination attempt in a marriage function in Jammu. The Lok Sabha rejects a no confidence vote against speaker, Om Birla by a voice vote. The Supreme Court rules in favor of removing life support from Harish Rana, who had been in a vegetative state following a fall in 2013, marking the first time that passive euthanasia has been allowed by an Indian court. 14 March – Sonam Wangchuk is released from jail after the government quashes the National Security Act (India) against him in aftermath of the Ladakh protests. 16 March – At least 10 patients are killed in a fire at SCB Medical College in Cuttack, Odisha. 18 March – At least seven people are killed after a short circuit at an EV charging station in Indore. At least nine people are killed in a building fire near Palam metro station in Delhi. 19 March – The Government of India constitutes the National Dental Commission (NDC), replacing the Dental Council of India established under the Dentists Act, 1948, to align dental education and regulation with global standards. 19–21 March – President Droupadi Murmu undertakes a three-day spiritual tour of Uttar Pradesh, visiting Ayodhya, Mathura and Vrindavan, where she offers prayers at the ISKCON Temple and Prem Mandir, Vrindavan. 23 March – At least five people are killed and nine people are injured in a building collapse in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. A special court in Madurai convicts all nine police personnel involved in the 2020 Sathankulam custodial death case. March 2026 – India is awarded hosting rights for the 2028 World Athletics Indoor Championships, with Bhubaneswar selected as the host city, making India the fourth Asian nation to host the event. 24 March – A special NIA court sentences Kashmiri separatist Asiya Andrabi to life imprisonment for her involvement in terrorist activities in Kashmir. 25 March – At least 14 people are killed and 20 people are injured in a fire following a bus collision with a lorry in Markapuram district, Andhra Pradesh. 26 March – At least nine people are killed and around 30 others are injured when a bus collides with a truck and overturns in Chhindwara district, Madhya Pradesh. 27 March – Lawmakers from the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference protest outside the legislative assembly of Jammu and Kashmir, in solidarity with Iran and against the assassination of supreme leader Ali Khamenei amidst the Iran war. Additionally, a major confrontation breaks out between INC lawmaker Irfan Hafiz Lone and BJP lawmaker Yudhvir Sethi during the protest. 28 March – The Noida International Airport is inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. 30 March – India says it has ended the Naxalite insurgency after home minister Amit Shah reported that most of the remaining Naxal fighters had been killed, arrested, or had surrendered following intensified security operations. 31 March – At least eight people are killed in a crowd crush in a temple in Nalanda, Bihar.
April
4 April – One person is killed and at least six others are reportedly trapped after a four-story hotel collapses in Anuppur, Madhya Pradesh. 6 April – A special court in Madurai sentences all nine policemen accused in the 2020 Sathankulam custodial death case to death. Telangana makes cancer a notifiable disease, and mandates one-month reporting timeline. 7 April – 2023 Manipur violence: Two people are killed and five others are injured in protests following a bombing that kills two children in Bishnupur, Manipur. 8 April – At least 60 people are injured in clashes between police and tribal villagers over a bauxite mining project in Rayagada district, Odisha. 9 April – 2026 Assam Legislative Assembly election: The BJP retains its majority in the Assam Legislative Assembly. 2026 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: The UDF wins a majority of seats in the Kerala Legislative Assembly. 2026 Puducherry Legislative Assembly election 2026 Noida workers protest