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Events from the year2019 inIndia.

Photo	Post	Name
	President of India	Ram Nath Kovind
	Vice-President of India Chairman of Rajya Sabha	Venkaiah Naidu
	Prime Minister of India	Narendra Modi
	Chief Justice of India	Sharad Arvind Bobde
	Speaker of the Lok Sabha	Om Birla
	Chief Election Commissioner of India	Sunil Arora
	Lok Sabha	17th Lok Sabha

• National income –₹ 203,510,129 million
• 2 January – Government approves merger ofDena Bank andVijaya Bank withBank of Baroda.^[1]
• 3 January –Rajya Sabha PassesNational Council for Teacher Education (Amendment) Bill.^[2]
• 4 January –Arunima Sinha becomes world's first woman amputee to scaleMount Vinson.^[3]
• 7 January – Centre clears 10 per cent quota for economically weak in general category.^[4]
• 12 February –Delhi hotel fire.
• 14 February –2019 Pulwama attack: A convoy of vehicles carrying security personnel on theJammu–Srinagar National Highway was attacked by a suicide bomber nearPulwama District,Jammu and Kashmir.
• 15 February –Prime Minister of India flagged of the firstVande Bharat Express.
• 21–25 February –2019 Assam alcohol poisonings: At least 168 people died after consuming poisonous liquor and more than 300 admitted in hospitals inJorhat andGolaghat districts.
• 26 February –2019 Balakot airstrike was carried out by theIndian Air Force crossing theLine of Control directed against a terrorist training camp.
• 1 March – Wing CommanderAbhinandan Varthaman, returns to India at Atari-Wagah Border during the night time.
• 27 March – India becomes 4th nation to haveAnti-satellite missile.^[5]
• 2 April –Serious Fraud Investigation Office arrests former Vice Chairman ofInfrastructure Leasing & Financial Services, Hari Sankaran for granting loans to entities that were not creditworthy and thereby causing loss to the company and its creditors.^[6]
• 11 April – Voting for the2019 Indian general election began.
• 17 April – A major airlines,Jet Airways ceased operations with its last flight fromSri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport.^[7]
• 3 May –Cyclone Fani arrives on the coast ofOdisha.
• 19 May – Voting for the2019 Indian general election ends.
• 23 May –2019 Indian general election: TheBJP ledNDA alliance wins alandslide victory of 353 seats in theLok Sabha.
• 24 May –
  • 2019 Surat fire tragedy: 22 Deaths and 17 Non-fatal injuries.
  • PresidentRam Nath Kovind dissolves the16th Lok Sabha.
• 30 May –Narendra Modi takes oath asPrime Minister of India for the second time.
• 17 June –Tabrez Ansari lynching: 24-year-old Tabrez Ansari was attacked by aHindu lynch mob inJharkhand, India. Ansari, aMuslim, was tied to atree, brutally beaten and forced to chantHindu religious slogans. He died four days later.
• 17 July – ThePopulation Control Bill, 2019 is a proposed bill introduced in theRajya Sabha byRakesh Sinha. The purpose of the bill is to control thePopulation growth of India. The proposed bill was signed by 125Members of Parliament (MP).^[8][9]
• 19 July –Vidisha Baliyan becomes the first Indian to be crowned as Miss Deaf World after winning theMiss Deaf World 2019.^[10][11]
• 22 July –ISRO launches India's second mission to moonChandrayaan-2
• 30 July – India banstriple talaq.
• 5 August –Article 370 andArticle 35A revoked fromConstitution of India that gives special status toJammu and Kashmir. Government also bifurcatesJammu and Kashmir andLadakh into separateUnion Territories.
• 5 August – Schools and Colleges are shut down inPune,Mumbai andNashik inMaharashtra due to floods.
• 7 August – Over 132,000 people evacuated inSangli andKolhapur districts ofMaharashtra state due to heavy rains.
• 16 August – Millions of residents inJammu and Kashmir still have no communication with the outside world, eleven days after theGovernment of India imposed restrictions on 5 August.^[12] Meanwhile, 11 deaths (3Pakistani soldiers, 6Indian soldiers, 2 Pakistani civilians) have been reported in theKashmir region.^[13]
• 17 August – Fire broke out in Emergency Ward of theAll India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. No casualties reported.
• 22 August –
  • FormerFinance ministerP Chidambaram is arrested byCBI under INX media scam charges after 27 hours long drama.
  • Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chiefRaj Thackeray was questioned byEnforcement Directorate in connection with theInfrastructure Leasing & Financial Services crisis due to his alleged involvement inMoney laundering in Kohinoor CTNL building project that had financial connections withIL&FS.
• 5 September –Erramatti Mangamma becomes the world's oldest living mother after giving birth to twins.^[14]
• 6 September –Chandrayaan-2, India's second lunar partially successful.Vikram, the lander, crashes into the surface of theMoon.
• 16 September –Jammu & Kashmir National Conference presidentFarooq Abdullah is arrested under thePublic Safety Act (PSA), a law that allows detention without trial for two years.^[15]
• 22 September – ThePresident of United StatesDonald Trump and theIndian Prime MinisterNarendra Modi address 50,000Indian Americans at theHowdy, Modi: Shared Dreams Bright Futures rally inNRG Stadium inHouston,Texas.^[16]
• 24 October – India andPakistan sign amemorandum of understanding opening theKartarpur Corridor for visa-free border crossings, allowingIndian citizens to visit theGurdwara Darbar SahibSikh shrine.
• 31 October –Jammu and Kashmir (union territory) andLadakh (union territory) will come in effect.
• 3 November –2019 Daman indigenous land clearing protests against decision of administratorPraful Khoda Patel.
• 5 November –Air pollution in parts of India hits record levels.^[17]
• 9 November – TheSupreme Court of India rules in favor ofHindus overRam Janmabhoomi temple.^[18][19][20]
• 22 November –Securities and Exchange Board of India blacklistedKarvy Stock Broking Ltd. for illegally pawning client securities to raise personal funds.^[21]
• 27 November –
  • Asessions court inMumbai overturns clean chit toAdani Group given in 2014 by a lower court on a share rigging case.^[22]
  • 2019 Hyderabad gang rape and murder.
• 29 November – Yogitha Reddy the pdf file got committed.
• 6 December – All 4 accused of the2019 Hyderabad gang rape and murder case are killed in an encounter by theCyberabad Metropolitan Police on theBengaluru-Hyderabad National Highway.
• 8 December –2019 Delhi factory fire.
• 11 December – TheCitizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 passed by theParliament of India.
• 29 December –Hemant Soren, chief ofJharkhand Mukti Morcha and alliance partner ofUnited Progressive Alliance sworn in asChief Minister of Jharkhand afterelections. His first decision was to drop all cases related toPathalgadi movement.^[23]

• "Amnesty" byAravind Adiga
• "Boy in the Blue Pullover" byRuskin Bond

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• 2 January
  • Ramakant Achrekar, Indian cricket coach (b. 1931)^[24]
  • Samuel Rayan, Indian theologian (b. 1920)^[25]
• 3 January
  • Chandrashekhar Shankar Dharmadhikari, Indian judge and independence activist (b. 1927)^[26]
  • Dibyendu Palit, Indian writer (b. 1939)^[27]
  • Pinaki Thakur, Indian poet (b. 1959)^[28]
• 8 January –Jayantilal Bhanusali, Indian politician (b. 1964)^[29]
• 9 January –Mahendra Mewati, Indian actor (b. 1969)^[30]
• 11 January
  • Kishore Pradhan, Indian actor (b. 1932)^[31]
  • Meera Sanyal, Indian banker (b. 1961)^[32]
  • Charles Soreng, Indian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1934)^[33]
• 14 January
  • Shivajirao Deshmukh, Indian politician (b. 1934)^[34]
  • Lenin Rajendran, Indian film director (b. 1951)^[35]
  • Devendra Swarup, Indian journalist (b. 1925)^[36]
• 15 January –Biraj Kumar Sarma, Indian politician (b. 1948)^[37]
• 16 January –Vishnu Hari Dalmia, Indian industrialist, (b. 1924)
• 17 January –S. Balakrishnan, Indian film score composer and music director (b. 1949)^[38]
• 19 January
  • Jagjit Singh Chopra, Indian neurologist (b. 1934)^[39]
  • Jaswinder Singh Sandhu, Indian politician (b. 1955)^[40]
• 21 January
  • Raghbir Singh Bhola, Indian field hockey player (b. 1927)^[41]
  • Shivakumara Swami, IndianLingayat spiritual leader and educationist (b. 1907)^[42]
• 23 January –Sitaram Rao Valluri, Indian-born American engineer (b. 1924)^[43]
• 25 January –Krishna Sobti, Indian author (b. 1925)^[44]
• 29 January –George Fernandes, Indian politician (b. 1930)^[45]
• 30 January –Dara Dotiwalla, Indian cricket umpire (b. 1933)^[46]

• 1 February –Thuppettan, Indian Malayalam playwright (b. 1929)^[47]
• 2 February –Arunendu Das, Indian musician (b. 1937)^[48]
• 3 February
  • Jeetendra Singh Bundela, Indian politician (b. 1958)^[49]
  • Tapan Mitra, Indian-born economist (b. 1948)^[50]
• 4 February –Ramesh Bhatkar, Indian actor (b. 1948)^[51]
• 5 February –Ladu Kishore Swain, Indian politician (b. 1947)^[52]
• 6 February –Chakradhar Sahu, Indian film director (b. 1963)^[53]
• 7 February –Chavara Parukutty Amma, Indian dancer and teacher (b. 1943)
• 8 February
  • Mahesh Anand, Indian actor (b. 1961)^[54]
  • Anilkumar Patel, Indian politician (b. 1945)^[55]
  • Vishnu Wagh, Indian poet, writer, dramatist, journalist, politician and management consultant/ trainer (b. 1964)^[56]
• 9 February –Satyajit Biswas, Indian politician (b. 1983)
• 11 February –Vijaya Bapineedu, Indian film director (b. 1936)^[57]
• 12 February
  • Afsir Karim, Indian army general and author (b. 1933)^[58]
  • Suresh Luthra, Indian cricketer (b. 1944)^[59]
• 14 February –Francis D'Souza, Indian politician (b. 1954)
• 18 February –Ram Shankar Tripathi, Scholar of Buddhism, editor and author (b. 1929)^[60]
• 19 February –Namvar Singh, Indian writer (b. 1926)^[61]
• 20 February –Nandyala Srinivasa Reddy, Indian politician (b. 1918)^[62]
• 21 February –Rajkumar Barjatya, Indian movie producer^[63]
• 22 February –Kodi Ramakrishna, Indian film director (b. 1949)^[64]
• 23 February
  • Ko Channabasappa, Indian writer (b. 1922)^[65]
  • S. Rajendran, Indian politician (b. 1956)^[66]
• 26 February –Uday Bhanu Hans, Indian poet (b. 1926)^[67]

• 1 March –Dhritikanta Lahiri Choudhury, Indian naturalist (b. 1931)^[68]
• 4 March –V. Dhananjay Kumar, Indian politician (b. 1951)
• 5 March –Boro Maa, Indian religious leader (b. 1918)
• 6 March –Typist Gopu, Indian actor (b. 1933)
• 11 March –Sundar Lal Tiwari, Indian politician (b. 1957)
• 14 March –Rosamma Chacko, Indian politician (b. 1927)
• 15 March –Y. S. Vivekananda Reddy, Indian politician (b. 1950)
• 17 March
  • Manohar Parrikar, Indian politician (b. 1955)^[69]
  • Chinmoy Roy, Indian actor (b. 1940)
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• 19 March –S. B. Sinha, Indian judge (b. 1944)
• 21 March –Haku Shah, Indian artist (b. 1934)
• 22 March –C. S. Shivalli, Indian politician (b. 1962)
• 23 March –Vinjamuri Anasuya Devi, Indian singer and composer (b. 1920)
• 27 March –Ashitha, Indian writer (b. 1956)

• 1 April –Dilip Sarkar, Indian politician (b. 1958)^[70]
• 2 April –Mahendran, Indian film director and actor (b. 1939)^[71]
• 5 April –Anandavally, Indian actress (b. 1952)^[72]
• 9 April
  • Bhima Mandavi, Indian politician,MLA (since 2019), bombing.^[73]
  • K. M. Mani, 86, Indian politician, member of theKerala Legislative Assembly (since 1965).^[74]
• 10 April –Drupad Borgohain, Indian politician (b. 1941)^[75]
• 11 April –Vijay Dev, 78, Indian academic.^[76]
• 13 April
  • D. Babu Paul, 78, Indian civil servant, multiple organ failure.^[77]
  • J. K. Rithesh, 46, Indian actor and politician, heart attack.^[78]
  • S. K. Shivakumar, 66, Indian space scientist, complications from jaundice.^[79]
• 14 April –Nand Lal, 74, Indian politician.^[80]
• 16 April –Abraham D. Mattam, 96, IndianSyro-Malabar Catholic hierarch, Bishop ofSatna (1968–1999).^[81]
• 20 April
  • Bed Prakash Agarwal, 83, Indian politician,Odisha MLA (1974–1980, 1990–1995, 2000–2004, since 2009).^[82]
  • S. Muthiah, 89, Indian historian.^[83]
  • Amar Pal, 96, Indian folk singer, heart attack.^[84]
• 22 April –Simon Kaipuram, 65, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop ofBalasore (since 2013).^[85]
• 25 April –Vidya Sagar Chaudhary, 85, Indian politician.^[86]
• 27 April –Vasanthi Stanley, 56, Indian politician,MP (2008–2014).^[87]
• 30 April –S. P. Y. Reddy, 68, Indian politician,MP (since 2004), lung infection.^[88]

• 1 May –B. Subhashan Reddy, Indian judge, former Chief Justice ofMadras High Court andKerala High Court (b. 1943)
• 2 May –Master Hirannaiah, Indian actor (b. 1934)
• 3 May –V. Viswanatha Menon, Indian politician (b. 1927)
• 7 May –Baidyanath Misra, Indian economist (b. 1920)
• 8 May –N. R. Madhava Menon, Indian legal educator (b. 1935)
• 10 May
  • Thoppil Mohamed Meeran, Indian Tamil writer (b. 1945)
  • M. Ramanathan, Indian politician, former MLA (b. 1935)
• 11 May –Yogesh Chander Deveshwar, Indian businessman, former chairman and CEO ofITC Limited (b. 1947)
• 12 May –Hiralal Yadav, Indian folk singer (b. 1926)
• 15 May –Neerav Patel, Indian poet (b. 1950)^[89]
• 17 May –Rallapalli, 73, Indian actor (Bombay,Minsara Kanavu,Anveshana).^[90]
• 19 May –Vijaya Mulay, 98, Indian film director, historian and educationist^[91]
• 20 May –Adrish Bardhan, 86, Indian science fiction writer^[92]
• 21 May –Tirong Aboh, Indian politician^[93]
• 22 May –Surya Prakash, 79, Indian artist.^[94]
• 23 May
  • Zakir Rashid Bhat, 24, Indian militant, founder ofAnsar Ghazwat-ul-Hind^[95]
  • Kalpana Dash, 52, Indian mountaineer.^[96]
• 27 May
  • Kamlesh Balmiki, 51, Indian politician^[97]
  • Veeru Devgan, 77, Indian film choreographer, actor and director^[98]
  • Hariom Singh Rathore, 61, Indian politician^[99]
  • Moni Kumar Subba, 61, Indian politician^[100]

• 2 June –P. K. Dharmalingam, Indian cricketer (b. 1936)^[101]
• 3 June –Ruma Guha Thakurata, Indian actress and singer (b. 1934)^[102]
• 4 June –Geevarghese Mar Timotheos, Indian Eastern Catholic prelate (b. 1928)^[103]
• 5 June –Dinyar Contractor, Indian actor (b. 1940)^[104]
• 10 June
  • R. V. Janakiraman, Indian politician (b. 1940)^[105]
  • Girish Karnad, Indian actor, screenwriter and playwright (b. 1938)^[106]
  • Crazy Mohan, Indian actor, comedian, screenwriter and playwright (b. 1952)^[107]
• 14 June –S. Sivasubramanian, Indian politician (b. 1937)^[108]
• 19 June –D. K. Chowta, Indian businessman, writer, artist, and theatre personality (b. 1938)^[109]

• 2 July –Rabin Mondal, Indian painter (b. 1929)^[110]
• 3 July
  • Sudarshan Agarwal, Indian politician (b. 1931)^[111]
  • Basant Kumar Birla, Indian businessman (b. 1921)^[112]
• 4 July –H. Gopal Bhandary, Indian politician (b. 1952)^[113]
• 6 July –K. L. Shivalinge Gowda, Indian politician (b. 1926)^[114]
• 7 July –R. Ramakrishnan, Indian politician, industrialist, and philanthropist (b. 1946)^[115]
• 12 July –M. J. Radhakrishnan, Indian cinematographer (b. 1957)^[116]
• 13 July –Sadashiv Vasantrao Gorakshkar, Indian writer and art curator (b. 1933)^[117]
• 14 July –Rahul Desikan, Indian-American neuroscientist and neuroradiologist (b. 1978)^[118]
• 16 July –Raja Dhale, Indian writer, artist and activist (b. 1940)^[119]
• 18 July –P. Rajagopal, Indian businessman and convicted murderer (b. 1947)^[120]
• 20 July –Sheila Dikshit, Indian politician (b. 1938)^[121]
• 21 July
  • Mange Ram Garg, Indian politician (b. 1936)^[122]
  • A. K. Roy, Indian politician (b. 1928)^[123]
• 23 July –Charan Narzary, Indian politician (b. 1933)^[124]
• 26 July –Attoor Ravi Varma, Indian poet and translator (b. 1930)^[125]
• 27 July –Samprada Singh, Indian businessman (b. 1925)^[126]

• 2 August –Devadas Kanakala, Indian actor (b. 1945)
• 4 August –Kanti Bhatt, Indian author, journalist and columnist (b. 1931)^[127]
• 6 August –Sushma Swaraj, Indian politician (b. 1952)^[128]
• 7 August –J. Om Prakash, Indian film director and producer (b. 1926)^[129]
• 8 August
  • Era. Anbarasu, Indian politician (b. 1940)^[130]
  • Shamnad Basheer, Indian legal scholar (b. 1976)^[131]
• 14 August –V. B. Chandrasekhar, Indian cricketer (b. 1961)^[132]
• 15 August
  • Lalbihari Bhattacharya, Indian politician (b. 1937)^[133]
  • Vidya Sinha, Indian actress (b. 1947)^[134]
• 17 August
  • Damodar Ganesh Bapat, Indian social worker (b. 1935)^[135]
  • Neelum Sharma, Indian anchorwoman (b. 1969)^[136]
  • Tabu Taid, Indian educationist, linguist, author and administrator (b. 1942)^[137]
• 19 August
  • Mohammed Zahur Khayyam, Indian music director and composer (b. 1927)^[138]
  • Jagannath Mishra, Indian politician (b. 1937)^[139]
• 20 August –Akhilesh Kumar Singh, Indian politician (b. 1959)^[140]
• 21 August –Babulal Gaur, Indian politician (b. 1930)^[141]
• 24 August –Arun Jaitley, Indian politician (b. 1952)^[142]

• 5 September –Kiran Nagarkar, Indian novelist, playwright and screenwriter (b. 1942)^[143]
• 6 September –Sukhdev Singh Libra, Indian politician (b. 1932)^[144]
• 8 September
  • Ram Jethmalani, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1923)^[145]
  • Yusuf Motala, Indian scholar (b. 1946)^[146]
• 16 September
  • B. J. Khatal-Patil, Indian politician (b. 1919)^[147]
  • Kodela Siva Prasada Rao, Indian politician (b. 1947)^[148]
• 17 September
  • Khem Singh Gill, Indian geneticist and plant breeder (b. 1930)^[149]
  • Sathaar, Indian actor (b. 1952)^[150]
• 18 September –Shyam Ramsay, Indian film director (b. 1952)^[151]
• 19 September –S. K. Padmadevi, Indian actress (b. 1924)^[152]
• 21 September –Naramalli Sivaprasad, Indian actor (b. 1951)^[153]
• 23 September –Madhav Apte, Indian cricketer (b. 1932)^[154]
• 25 September –Venu Madhav, Indian actor and comedian (b. 1968)^[155]

• 29 October –Sujith Wilson^[156]

• 14 November –Vashishtha Narayan Singh, mathematician

• 16 December –Geeta Siddharth, Bollywood Actress
• 17 December –Shriram Lagoo, Marathi Actor
• 26 December –Kushal Punjabi,TV Actor
• 29 December –Vishwesha Teertha, Hindu Saint
• 30 December –Sonny Mehta, editor

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